catdata (version 1.2.4)

deathpenalty: Death-Penalty

Description

The deathpenalty data is about the judgemt of defendants in cases of multiple murders in Florida between 1976 and 1987. They are classified with respect to death penalty, race of defendent and race of victim.

Usage

data(deathpenalty)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables. Considering the weighting variable "Freq", there are 674 cases.

DeathPenalty

Was the judgment death penalty? yes = 1, no = 0

VictimRace

The race of the victim: white = 1, black = 0

DefendantRace

The race of the defendant: white = 1, black = 0

Freq

Frequency of observation

References

Agresti, A. (2002) Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley

Examples

if (FALSE) {
##look for:
data(deathpenalty)
}