carsafety: Fatality information in U.S. for several popular cars

In jverzani/UsingR: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

Description

Safety statistics appearing in a January 12th, 2004 issue of the New Yorker showing fatality rates per million vehicles both for drivers of a car, and drivers of other cars that are hit.

Usage

data(carsafety)

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 4 variables.

Make.model

The make and model of the car

type

Type of car

Driver.deaths

Number of drivers deaths per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road

Other.deaths

Number of deaths in other vehicle caused by accidents involving these cars per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road

Details

The article this data came from wishes to make the case that SUVs are not safer despite a perception among the U.S. public that they are.

Source

From "Big and Bad" by Malcolm Gladwell. New Yorker, Jan. 12 2004 pp28-33. Data attributed to Tom Wenzel and Marc Ross who have written http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/assets/images/2002/Aug-26-2002/SUV-report.pdf.

Examples

data(carsafety)
plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)
plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)

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