R/rd-af_crime93.R

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#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' Statewide Crime Data (1993)
#'
#' These data are in Table 9.1 of the 3rd edition of Agresti and Finlay's
#'  *Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences*. The data are from
#'  *Statistical Abstract of the United States* and most variables were measured in 1993.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 51 observations on the following 8 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{state}}{a character vector for the state}
#' \item{\code{violent}}{a numeric vector for the violent crime rate (per 100,000 people in population)}
#' \item{\code{murder}}{a numeric vector for the murder rate (per 100,000 people in population)}
#' \item{\code{poverty}}{a numeric vector for the  percent with income below the poverty level}
#' \item{\code{single}}{a numeric vector for the percent of families headed by a single parent}
#' \item{\code{metro}}{a numeric vector for the percent of population in metropolitan areas}
#' \item{\code{white}}{a numeric vector for the percentage of the state that is white}
#' \item{\code{highschool}}{a numeric vector for the percent of state that graduated from high school}
#' }
#'
#' @details The data are from Statistical Abstract of the United States and most variables were measured in 1993. These data should
#' result in regressions that would flunk a Breusch-Pagan test for heteroskedasticity.
#'
#' @references Agresti, Alan and Barbara Finley. 1997. \emph{Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences}. Prentice Hall. (3rd Edition)
#'
"af_crime93"