deathPenalty: Death Penalty and Race

In fastR: Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R

Description

A famous example of Simpson's paradox.

Format

A data frame with 326 observations. The factors are coded more succinctly in deathPen, but otherwise the data are the same.

• DeathPenalty a factor with levels Yes No

• Penalty a factor with levels Death Not

• Victim a factor with levels Black White (or Bl Wh)

• Defendant a factor with levels Black White (or Bl Wh)

Source

Radelet, M. (1981). Racial characteristics and imposition of the death penalty. American Sociological Review, 46:918–927.

Examples

xtabs(~Defendant+Penalty,deathPenalty)
xtabs(~Defendant+Victim+Penalty,deathPenalty)

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