Imagine that you worked for a record company and that your boss was interested in predicting album sales from advertising.

The data set is fictional and was constructed by Andy Field who therefore owns the copyright. The data set is also publicly available on the website that accompanies Andy Field's book, https://edge.sagepub.com/field5e. Without Andy Field's explicit consent, this data set may not be distributed for commercial purposes, this data set may not be edited, and this data set may not be presented without acknowledging its source (i.e., the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND license).

AlbumSales

Format

A data frame with 60 rows, each one representing a different album, and 5 variables:

selSbj

Select the data in this row (1) or not (0)

Adverts

Amount (in thousands of pounds) spent promoting the album before release

Airplay

How many times songs from the album were played on a prominent national radio station in the week before release

Image

How attractive people found the band's image (out of 10)

Sales

Sales (in thousands) of each album in the week after release

Details

Reference: Field, A. P. (2017). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (5th ed.). Sage.