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ex1514

Trends in Firearm and Motor Vehicle Deaths in the U.S.

Description

Data shows the number of deaths due to firearms and the number of deaths due to motor vehicle accidents in the United States between 1968 and 1993.

Usage

ex1514

Format

A data frame with 26 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year: year
FirearmDeaths: deaths due to firearms (in thousands per year)
MotorVehicleDeaths: deaths due to motor vehicles (in thousands per year)

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Data read from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention graph reported in The Oregonian, June 17, 1997.

Examples

str(ex1514)

Sleuth2

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

v2.0-5

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Original by F.L. Ramsey and D.W. Schafer; modifications by Daniel W. Schafer, Jeannie Sifneos and Berwin A. Turlach; vignettes contributed by Nicholas Horton, Kate Aloisio and Ruobing Zhang, with corrections by Randall Pruim

Initial release

2019-01-24