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vcd (version 1.4-11)

Punishment: Corporal Punishment Data

Description

Data from a study of the Gallup Institute in Denmark in 1979 about the attitude of a random sample of 1,456 persons towards corporal punishment of children.

Usage

data("Punishment")

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 36 observations and 5 variables.

Freq

frequency.

attitude

factor indicating attitude: (no, moderate) punishment of children.

memory

factor indicating whether the person had memories of corporal punishment as a child (yes, no).

education

factor indicating highest level of education (elementary, secondary, high).

age

factor indicating age group in years (15-24, 25-39, 40-).

References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Examples

Run this code
data("Punishment", package = "vcd")
pun <- xtabs(Freq ~ memory + attitude + age + education, data = Punishment)

## model: ~ (memory + attitude) * age * education
## use maximum sum-of-squares test/shading
cotabplot(~ memory + attitude | age + education, data = pun, panel = cotab_coindep,
  n = 5000, type = "assoc", test = "maxchisq", interpolate = 1:2)

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