R/propensity.R

In Guerry: Maps, Data and Methods Related to Guerry (1833) "Moral Statistics of France"

#' Distribution of crimes against persons at different ages
#' 
#' This dataset comes from Plate IV, "Influence de l'age" of Guerry(1833),
#' transcribed in Whitt & Reinking's (2002) translation as Table 9A, pp. 38-43.
#' It gives the rank ordering of crimes against persons in seven age groups, in
#' long form.
#' 
#' For each age group (both males and females), the 17 most frequent crimes are
#' listed in rank order, followed by an 'Other crime' category.
#' 
#' @name propensity
#' @docType data
#' @format A data frame with 124 observations on the following 4 variables.
#' \describe{
#'   \item{`age`}{a character vector, with 7 age groups, `"<21"`, `"21-30"`,
#'     `"30-40"` ... `"60-70"`, `"70-"`}
#'   \item{`rank`}{a numeric vector, rank of the crime within each age group}
#'   \item{`crime`}{a character vector, label of the crime}
#'   \item{`share`}{a numeric vector, share (frequency) of the crime in a
#'     population of 1000}
#' }
#' @references Guerry, A.-M. (1833). \emph{Essai sur la statistique morale de
#' la France} Paris: Crochard.
#' @source H. P. Whitt and V. W. Reinking (2002). A Translation of
#' Andr\'e-Michel Guerry's \emph{Essay on the Moral Statistics of France},
#' Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
#' @keywords datasets
#' @examples
#' 
#' data(propensity)
#' ## maybe str(propensity) ; plot(propensity) ...
#' 
NULL