VictimsOfCrime: Reported victims of crime data

Description

The data shows whether victims of crime were reported in the local media.

Usage

data(VictimsOfCrime)

Arguments

docType

data

source

The data were given by Prof Brian Francis of Lancaster University. They can be used to demonstrate the usefulness of smoothing techniques with a binary response variable.

Details

Whether the crime was reported in local media.

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554. Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.com/). Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

Examples

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data(VictimsOfCrime)

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