earlycrcktr: Lifespans of UK 1st class cricketers born prior to 1840
In DAAGxtras: Data Sets and Functions, supplementary to DAAG

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Year and birth, lifespan, etc, of British first class cricketers, born prior to 1840, whose handedness could be determined.

1	data(earlycrcktr)

A data frame with 211 observations on the following 8 variables.

left: a factor with levels right left
year: numeric, year of birth
life: numeric, lifespan
dead: numeric (all 1 = dead)
acd: numeric (0 = not accidental or not dead, 1 = accidental death)
kia: numeric (all 0 = not killed in action)
inbed: numeric (0 = did not die in bed, 1 = died in bed)
cause: a factor with levels alive acd (accidental death) inbed (died in bed)

John Aggleton, Martin Bland. Data were collated as described in Aggleton et al.

Aggleton JP, Bland JM, Kentridge RW, Neave NJ 1994. Handedness and longevity: an archival study of cricketers. British Medical Journal 309, 1681-1684.

Bailey P, Thorne P, Wynne-Thomas P. 1993. Who's Who of Cricketers. 2nd ed, London, Hamlyn.

Bland M and Altman D. 2005. Do the left-handed die young? Significance 2, 166-170.

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