countydeaths: County death rates for six English counties, 1876-1883

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

County deaths for six English counties, 1876–1883, from the 1883 registrar-general's report. This data was analyzed in Edgeworth (1885).

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 48 rows and 3 columns.

name type description
county "character" County name
year "integer" Year
death_rate "numeric" Annual deaths per thousand in that county

Source

Stigler, Stephen M. The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, p. 98

References

Stigler, Stephen M. The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, p. 26

Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro. 1885. “On Methods of Ascertaining Variations in the Rate of Births, Deaths and Marriages”. Journal of the [Royal] Statistical Society. 48: 628-649


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