datasets (version 3.2.3)

USArrests: Violent Crime Rates by US State

Description

This data set contains statistics, in arrests per 100,000 residents for assault, murder, and rape in each of the 50 US states in 1973. Also given is the percent of the population living in urban areas.

Usage

USArrests

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on 4 variables.
[,1] Murder numeric
Murder arrests (per 100,000) [,2] Assault
numeric Assault arrests (per 100,000) [,3]
UrbanPop numeric Percent urban population

Source

World Almanac and Book of facts 1975. (Crime rates). Statistical Abstracts of the United States 1975. (Urban rates).

References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. New York: Wiley.

See Also

The state data sets.

Examples

Run this code
require(graphics)
pairs(USArrests, panel = panel.smooth, main = "USArrests data")

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