death.penalty: Florida state death penalty data

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

Florida state death penalty data

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

death.penalty

Format

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

count

Counts from cross classification

verdict

Death penalty verdict: No Yes

d.race

Defendant's race: Black, White

v.race

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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