ledgejump: Crowd Behavior at Ledge-Jumping Incidents
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Crowd Behavior at Ledge-Jumping Incidents
Description
A dataset recreated from summary data describing the relationship between weather and crowd behavior during 21 recorded
incidents in England, in which a (suicidal) person was contemplating jumping from a ledge or other high structure and a crowd
gathered to watch. The variables are as follows:
weather. Warm or cool, based on the time of year when the incident occurred.
crowd.behavior. The crowd either baited the would-be jumper, or was polite.
Format
A data frame with 21 rows and 2 variables
Source
"The baiting crowd in episodes of threatened suicide",
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 703-709. See also dataset 59 in
A Handbook of Small Datasets by Hand et al. See also \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1037/0022-3514.41.4.703")}.
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Crowd Behavior at Ledge-Jumping Incidents
Description
A dataset recreated from summary data describing the relationship between weather and crowd behavior during 21 recorded incidents in England, in which a (suicidal) person was contemplating jumping from a ledge or other high structure and a crowd gathered to watch. The variables are as follows:
weather. Warm or cool, based on the time of year when the incident occurred.
crowd.behavior. The crowd either baited the would-be jumper, or was polite.
Format
A data frame with 21 rows and 2 variables
Source
"The baiting crowd in episodes of threatened suicide", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41, 703-709. See also dataset 59 in A Handbook of Small Datasets by Hand et al. See also \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1037/0022-3514.41.4.703")}.
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