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Poverty

Percent poverty and crime rate for selected cities

Data for Exercise 9.11 and 9.17

Poverty

A data frame/tibble with 20 observations on four variables

city: a factor with levels Atlanta, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, O, Detroit, Flint, Mich, Fresno, C, Gary, Ind, Hartford, C, Laredo, Macon, Ga, Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Newark, NJ, Rochester,NY, Shreveport, St. Louis, and Waco, Tx
poverty: percent of children living in poverty
crime: crime rate (per 1000 people)
population: population of city

Children's Defense Fund and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

plot(poverty ~ crime, data = Poverty)
model <- lm(poverty ~ crime, data = Poverty)
abline(model, col = "red")
summary(model)
rm(model)

Basic Statistics and Data Analysis

v1.2.0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Alan T. Arnholt [aut, cre], Ben Evans [aut]

Initial release

2017-07-29