Stats 6590 Project

AAUP Study on Faculty Salaries

You have been hired as a consultant by the AAUP to analyze data collected on faculty salaries for 1161 American colleges and universities. This dataset is taken from the March-April 1994 issue of Academe. Faculty salary data are for the 1993-94 school year. A description of the data and variables is at the end of this writeup.

You can access the datafile from our course webpage

http://www.math.mun.ca/~sneddon/st6590

If you are using Splus, you can place the data in your computer account by typing

attach("/users/math/faculty/sneddon/DATA")

The data is saved as aaup.dat

Your analysis should include, but not be limited to, examining the following issues:

1. Developing a model which can predict assistant professor salaries (or compensation) from some of the other variables.

2. Repeating (1) for associate professors.

3. Repeating (1) for full professors.

4. Can you develop a model which includes the rank of the professor as an explanatory variable, so you can use a single model to predict the salary (or compensation) for any professor?

You should also investigate any other relationships that seem appropriate to study.

Data Description

The variables in columns of the data file are as follows:

1. FICE (Federal ID number)
2. College name
3. State (postal code)
4. Type (I, IIA, or IIB) (Research or Teaching Universities).
5. Average salary - full professors
6. Average salary - associate professors
7. Average salary - assistant professors
8. Average salary - all ranks
9. Average compensation - full professors
10. Average compensation - associate professors
11. Average compensation - assistant professors
12. Average compensation - all ranks
13. Number of full professors
14. Number of associate professors
15. Number of assistant professors
16. Number of instructors
17. Number of faculty - all ranks

Missing values are denoted with NA. All salary and compensation figures are yearly in $100's.