lawsuits: Law suit settlements

In UsingR: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

Law suit settlements

Description

A simulated dataset on the settlement amount of 250 lawsuits based on values reported by Class Action Reports.

Usage

data(lawsuits)

Format

The format is: num [1:250] 16763 10489 17693 14268 442 ...

Details

Class Action Reports completed an extensive survey of attorney fee awards from 1,120 common fund class actions (Volume 24, No. 2, March/April 2003). The full data set is available for a fee. This data is simulated from the values published in an excerpt.

Source

Original data from http://www.classactionreports.com/classactionreports/attorneyfee.htm

References

See also "Study Disputes View of Costly Surge in Class-Action Suits" by Jonathan D. Glater in the January 14, 2004 New York Times which cites a Jan. 2004 paper in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies by Eisenberg and Miller.

Examples

data(lawsuits)
mean(lawsuits)
median(lawsuits)

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