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PreSex

Pre-marital Sex and Divorce

Description

Data from Thornes & Collard (1979), reported in Gilbert (1981), on pre- and extra-marital sex and divorce.

Usage

data("PreSex")

Format

A 4-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 1036 observations on 4 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

No	Name	Levels
1	MaritalStatus	Divorced, Married
2	ExtramaritalSex	Yes, No
3	PremaritalSex	Yes, No
4	Gender	Women, Men

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/marital.sas

References

G. N. Gilbert (1981), Modelling Society: An Introduction to Loglinear Analysis for Social Researchers. Allen and Unwin, London.

B. Thornes & J. Collard (1979), Who Divorces?. Routledge & Kegan, London.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("PreSex")

## Mosaic display for Gender and Premarital Sexual Experience
## (Gender Pre)
mosaic(margin.table(PreSex, c(3,4)), 
                main = "Gender and Premarital Sex")

## (Gender Pre)(Extra)
mosaic(margin.table(PreSex, c(2,3,4)), 
       expected = ~Gender * PremaritalSex + ExtramaritalSex ,
	   main = "PreMaritalSex*Gender +Sex")

## (Gender Pre Extra)(Marital)
mosaic(PreSex,
       expected = ~Gender*PremaritalSex*ExtramaritalSex + MaritalStatus,
       main = "PreMarital*ExtraMarital + MaritalStatus")

## (GPE)(PEM)
mosaic(PreSex, 
       expected = ~ Gender * PremaritalSex * ExtramaritalSex
                    + MaritalStatus * PremaritalSex * ExtramaritalSex,
       main = "G*P*E + P*E*M")

vcd

Visualizing Categorical Data

v1.4-10

GPL-2

Authors

David Meyer [aut, cre], Achim Zeileis [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-3766>), Kurt Hornik [aut], Florian Gerber [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb]

Initial release