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DeathPenalty: Death Penalty and Race

Description

A famous example of Simpson's paradox.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 326 observations.

  • death a factor with levels Yes No

  • penalty a factor with levels death other

  • victim a factor with levels Bl Wh)

  • Defendant a factor with levels Bl Wh

Examples

Run this code

tally(penalty ~ defendant, data = DeathPenalty)
tally(penalty ~ defendant + victim, data = DeathPenalty)

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