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Saxony: Families in Saxony

Description

Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rohlf (1969) and Lindsey (1995) on gender distributions in families in Saxony in the 19th century.

Usage

data("Saxony")

Arguments

Format

A 1-way table giving the number of male children in 6115 families of size 12. The variable and its levels are

NoNameLevels
1nMales0, 1, ..., 12

References

J. K. Lindsey (1995), Analysis of Frequency and Count Data. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rohlf (1969), Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

Run this code
data("Saxony")
gf <- goodfit(Saxony, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)

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