egypt: Mortality data from ancient Egypt

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Mortality data from ancient Egypt

Description

Age at death of 141 Roman era Egyptian mummies.

Usage

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Format

A tibble with 141 observations and 2 variables:

age

Age at death.

sex

Sex of deceased; 82 males and 49 females.

Details

This data was collected by Spiegelberg (1901) and analyzed by Karl Pearson (1902) in the first volume of Biometrika. It was analyzed by Claeskens & Hjort (2008) and the data is based on their transcription.

References

Spiegelberg, W. (1901). Aegyptische und Griechische Eigennamen aus Mumientiketten der R<U+00F6>mischen Kaiserzeit.

Pearson, K. (1902). On the change in expectation of life in man during a period of circa 2000 years. Biometrika, 1(2), 261-264.

Claeskens, G., & Hjort, N. L. (2008). Model selection and model averaging. Cambridge University Press.

See Also

The source of the data is https://feb.kuleuven.be/public/u0043181/modelselection/datasets/egyptlives_data.txt

Examples

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