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Saxony

Families in Saxony

Description

Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rohlf (1969) and Lindsey (1995) on gender distributions in families in Saxony in the 19th century.

Usage

data("Saxony")

Format

A 1-way table giving the number of male children in 6115 families of size 12. The variable and its levels are

No	Name	Levels
1	nMales	0, 1, ..., 12

Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 40–42.

References

J. K. Lindsey (1995), Analysis of Frequency and Count Data. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rohlf (1969), Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

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

Examples

data("Saxony")
gf <- goodfit(Saxony, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)

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