DeathPenalty: Death Penalty and Race

In fastR2: Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R (2nd Edition)

Death Penalty and Race

Description

A famous example of Simpson's paradox.

Format

A data frame with 326 observations.

id

a subject id

victim

a factor with levels Bl Wh)

defendant

a factor with levels Bl, Wh

death

a factor with levels Yes, No

penalty

a factor with levels death other

Source

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

Examples

tally(penalty ~ defendant, data = DeathPenalty)
tally(penalty ~ defendant + victim, data = DeathPenalty)

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