Death by Horse Kicks
Data from von Bortkiewicz (1898), given by Andrews & Herzberg (1985),
on number of deaths by horse or mule kicks in 10 (of 14 reported)
corps of the Prussian army. 4 corps were not considered by Fisher
(1925) as they had a different organization. This data set is a
popular subset of the VonBort data.
data("HorseKicks")A 1-way table giving the number of deaths in 200 corps-years. The variable and its levels are
| No | Name | Levels |
| 1 | nDeaths | 0, 1, ..., 4 |
Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 18.
D. F. Andrews & A. M. Herzberg (1985), Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
R. A. Fisher (1925), Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Oliver & Boyd, London.
L. von Bortkiewicz (1898), Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen. Teubner, Leipzig.
M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
data("HorseKicks")
gf <- goodfit(HorseKicks)
summary(gf)
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