floridavote: floridavote data

In jrnold/bps5data: Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th ed.

Description

Dataset floridavote The Basic Practice of Statistics, 5th edition.

Usage

data("floridavote")

Format

\Sexpr[results=rd]{bps5data:::doc_data("floridavote", variables = FALSE)}

County

Gore

Bush

Buchanan

Nader

GOREpct

BUSHpct

BUCHpct

Details

Voting data for Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election. The elction was famously close. Palm Beach County had a confusing ballot arrangement that led some voters to choose Buchanan in error. Data analysis will disclose the effects of this. See the Statistical Thinking intoduction for students for a scatterplot.

Source

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/bps5e/content/cat_110/bps5e_large_datasets.zip

References

Moore, David S. 2009. The Basic Practice of Statistics. 5th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman.

See Also

Other large datasets from BPS 5th ed.: bliss; call; class; concept; education; foodsafety; income; literacy; newt; reading; verizon

jrnold/bps5data documentation built on May 19, 2019, 11:55 p.m.