superhero: Superhero data

In profandyfield/discovr: Interactive Tutorials and Data for "Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio"

Superhero data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2023). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

superhero

Format

A tibble with 30 rows and 3 variables.

Details

Children wearing superhero costumes are more likely to harm themselves because of the unrealistic impression of invincibility that these costumes could create. For example, children have reported to hospital with severe injuries because of trying 'to initiate flight without having planned for landing strategies' (Davies, Surridge, Hole, & Munro-Davies, 2007). I can relate to the imagined power that a costume bestows upon you; indeed, I have been known to dress up as Fisher by donning a beard and glasses and trailing a goat around on a lead in the hope that it might make me more knowledgeable about statistics. These fictional data contain the severity of injury (on a scale from 0, no injury, to 100, death) for children reporting to the accident and emergency department at hospitals, and information on which superhero costume they were wearing (hero): Spiderman, Superman, the Hulk or a teenage mutant ninja turtle. The fictitious data contain the following variables:

• id: The participant's id

• hero: The costume being worn at the time of injury (Spiderman, Superman, the Hulk or a teenage mutant ninja turtle)

• injury: the severity of injury (on a scale from 0, no injury, to 100, death)

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/superhero.csv

profandyfield/discovr documentation built on May 4, 2024, 4:32 p.m.