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Punishment

Corporal Punishment Data

Description

Data from a study of the Gallup Institute in Denmark in 1979 about the attitude of a random sample of 1,456 persons towards corporal punishment of children.

Usage

data("Punishment")

Format

A data frame with 36 observations and 5 variables.

Freq: frequency.
attitude: factor indicating attitude: (no, moderate) punishment of children.
memory: factor indicating whether the person had memories of corporal punishment as a child (yes, no).
education: factor indicating highest level of education (elementary, secondary, high).
age: factor indicating age group in years (15-24, 25-39, 40-).

Note

Anderson (1991) erroneously indicates the total sum of respondents to be 783.

Source

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data, pages 207–208.

References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Examples

data("Punishment", package = "vcd")
pun <- xtabs(Freq ~ memory + attitude + age + education, data = Punishment)

## model: ~ (memory + attitude) * age * education
## use maximum sum-of-squares test/shading
cotabplot(~ memory + attitude | age + education, data = pun, panel = cotab_coindep,
  n = 5000, type = "assoc", test = "maxchisq", interpolate = 1:2)

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