Leinhardt: Data on Infant-Mortality
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Description
Usage
Format
Details
Source
References
Description
The Leinhardt data frame has 105 rows and 4 columns.
The observations are nations of the world around 1970.
Usage
1
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- income
-
Per-capita income in U. S. dollars.
- infant
-
Infant-mortality rate per 1000 live births.
- region
-
A factor with levels:
Africa;
Americas;
Asia, Asia and Oceania;
Europe.
- oil
-
Oil-exporting country.
A factor with levels:
no,
yes.
Details
The infant-mortality rate for Jamaica is misprinted in
Leinhardt and Wasserman; the correct value is given here.
Some of the values given in Leinhardt and Wasserman do not appear
in the original New York Times table and are of dubious validity.
Source
Leinhardt, S. and Wasserman, S. S. (1979)
Exploratory data analysis: An introduction to selected methods.
In Schuessler, K. (Ed.)
Sociological Methodology 1979 Jossey-Bass.
The New York Times, 28 September 1975, p. E-3, Table 3.
References
Fox, J. (2016)
Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models,
Third Edition. Sage.
Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019)
An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.
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Description Usage Format Details Source References
Description
The Leinhardt data frame has 105 rows and 4 columns.
The observations are nations of the world around 1970.
Usage
1 |
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- income
-
Per-capita income in U. S. dollars.
- infant
-
Infant-mortality rate per 1000 live births.
- region
-
A factor with levels:
Africa;Americas;Asia, Asia and Oceania;Europe. - oil
-
Oil-exporting country. A factor with levels:
no,yes.
Details
The infant-mortality rate for Jamaica is misprinted in Leinhardt and Wasserman; the correct value is given here. Some of the values given in Leinhardt and Wasserman do not appear in the original New York Times table and are of dubious validity.
Source
Leinhardt, S. and Wasserman, S. S. (1979) Exploratory data analysis: An introduction to selected methods. In Schuessler, K. (Ed.) Sociological Methodology 1979 Jossey-Bass.
The New York Times, 28 September 1975, p. E-3, Table 3.
References
Fox, J. (2016) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Third Edition. Sage.
Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.
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