Florida_sentences: Florida state death penalty data 1976-1987

In gmonette/spida2: Collection of tools developed for the Summer Programme in Data Analysis 2000-2012

Florida state death penalty data 1976-1987

Description

Dataset detailing death penalty 674 homicide trials in the state of Florida from 1976-1987 with respect to verdict, and victim and defendant race. The data were previously used (Agresti 2012) to demonstrate Simpson's Paradox. This dataset was obtained from the asbio package.

Usage

Florida_sentences

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.

Freq

Counts from cross classification

sentence

Death penalty verdict: Internment Death

defendant

Defendant's race: Black, White

victim

Victim's race: Black, White

Details

A reversal of associations or comparisons may occur as a result of lurking variables or aggregating groups. This is called Simpson's Paradox.

References

Agresti, A. (2012) Categorical Data Analysis, 3rd edition. New York. Wiley. Radelet, M. L., and G. L. Pierce (1991) Choosing those who will die: race and the death penalty in Florida. Florida Law Review 43(1):1-34. Simpson, E. H. (1951) The Interpretation of interaction in contingency tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Ser. B 13: 238-241.

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