Death: Death Penalty Data

In lbreg: Log-Binomial Regression with Constrained Optimization

Description

See references.

Usage

data("Death")

Format

A data frame with 147 observations on the following 6 variables.

death

death = 1, life in prison = 0

blackd

black defendant = 1

whitvic

white victim = 1

serious

a measure of crime seriousness

culp

a measure of culpability

serious2

another measure of crime seriousness

Source

SAS Institute Inc. (2006). Logistic regression using the SAS system: Theory and application. SAS Publishing, Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc; http://ftp.sas.com/~samples/A55770

References

Petersen MR, Deddens JA (2010). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Log-Binomial Model. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 39, 874-883.

Examples

data(Death)
dim(Death)
names(Death)

Example output

[1] 147   6
[1] "death"    "blackd"   "whitvic"  "serious"  "culp"     "serious2"

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