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Suicide

Suicide Rates in Germany

Description

Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by age, sex, and method of suicide.

Usage

data("Suicide")

Format

A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

Freq: frequency of suicides.
sex: factor indicating sex (male, female).
method: factor indicating method used.
age: age (rounded).
age.group: factor. Age classified into 5 groups.
method2: factor indicating method used (same as method but some levels are merged).

Source

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

References

J. Heuer (1979), Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.

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

Examples

data("Suicide")
structable(~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide)

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