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Leinhardt: Data on Infant-Mortality

Description

The Leinhardt data frame has 105 rows and 4 columns. The observations are nations of the world around 1970.

Usage

data(Leinhardt)

Arguments

source

Leinhardt, S. and Wasserman, S. S. (1979) Exploratory data analysis: An introduction to selected methods. In Schuessler, K. (Ed.) Sociological Methodology 1979 Jossey-Bass. The New York Times, 28 September 1975, p. E-3, Table 3.

Details

The infant-mortality rate for Jamaica is misprinted in Leinhardt and Wasserman; the correct value is given here. Some of the values given in Leinhardt and Wasserman do not appear in the original New York Times table.

References

Fox, J. (1997) Applied Regression, Linear Models, and Related Methods. Sage.