Context This data set contains data regarding the allocation of funding from the Department of Developmental Services to developmentally-disabled individuals in California in 2014. Content The variables included are: - Id [int] - Age Cohort (age group) [factor] - Age [int] - Gender [factor] - Expenditures [int] - Ethnicity [factor] This data set is well suited for exploring the effects of Simpson's Paradox and confounding variables. Acknowledgements The data was originally retrieved from the California Department of Developmental Services (http://www.dds.ca.gov) by Stanley Taylor and Amy Mickel from California State University, Sacremento. The names associated with each record have been removed to protect anonymity. Taylor and Mickel explored Simpson's Paradox using this data set after a discrimination lawsuit was filed against the California DDS. The lawsuit claimed that White Non-Hispanics were receiving more funding than Hispanics. To learn more about the analysis and findings of Taylor and Mickel, read the paper they published together by following this link: www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v22n1/mickel.pdf Inspiration Is there any basis to the claim of discrimination? What are the confounding variables? What are other ways to organize this data to gain an alternate perspective?