The Discretized Painter's Data of de Piles

Description

The original painters data contain the subjective assessment, on a 0 to 20 integer scale, of 54 classical painters. The newpainters data discretizes the subjective assessment by quartiles with thresholds 25%, 50%, 75%. The painters were assessed on four characteristics: composition, drawing, colour and expression. The data is due to the Eighteenth century art critic, de Piles.

Usage

data(newpainters)

Format

A table containing 5 variables ("Composition", "Drawing", "Colour", "Expression", and "School") and 54 observations.

Source

A. J. Weekes (1986).“A Genstat Primer”. Edward Arnold.

M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972). “The statistical analysis of aesthetic judgement: an exploration.” Applied Statistics, vol. 21, pp. 324–333.

I. T. Jolliffe (1986) “Principal Component Analysis.” Springer.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) “Modern Applied Statistics with S,” Fourth edition. Springer.