USArrests_df: Violent Crime Rates by US State

In crimedatasets: A Comprehensive Collection of Crime-Related Datasets

Violent Crime Rates by US State

Description

This dataset contains statistics on violent crime rates in each of the 50 US states for the year 1973. The data includes arrests per 100,000 residents for assault, murder, and rape, as well as the percentage of the population living in urban areas.

Usage

data(USArrests_df)

Format

A data frame with 50 observations and 4 variables:

Murder

Murder arrests per 100,000 residents (numeric).

Assault

Assault arrests per 100,000 residents (integer).

UrbanPop

Percentage of the population living in urban areas (integer).

Rape

Rape arrests per 100,000 residents (numeric).

Details

The dataset name has been changed to 'USArrests_df' to maintain consistency with the naming conventions of the crimedatasets package. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is stored as a data frame in R. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

1973 crime data, originally included in the USArrests dataset from R.

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