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Death notice: The data show the number of death notices for women who are 80 years of age or older

Description

The function gives the number of death notices for women who are 80 years of age or older.

Usage

data_death

Value

data_death gives the number of death notices for women who are 80 years of age or older.

Arguments

data_death

A vector of (non-negative integer) count values.

Author

Muhammad Imran

R implementation and documentation: Muhammad Imran imranshakoor84@yahoo.com.

Details

The data show the number of death notices for women who are 80 years of age or older, appearing in the London Times on each day for three consecutive years. Recently, they were used by Zhang et al. (2016) and fitted by the zero-and-one inflated Poisson distribution.

References

Zhang, C., Tian, G. L., & Ng, K. W. (2016). Properties of the zero-and-one inflated Poisson distribution and likelihood-based inference methods. Statistics and its Interface, 9(1), 11-32.

Gupta, P. L., Gupta, R. C., & Tripathi, R. C. (1996). Analysis of zero-adjusted count data. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 23(2), 207-218.

Hasselblad, V. (1969). Estimation of finite mixtures of distributions from the exponential family. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 64(328), 1459-1471.

Schilling, W. (1947). A frequency distribution is represented as the sum of two Poisson distributions. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 42(239), 407-424.

Examples

Run this code
x<-data_death
summary(x)
table (x)

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