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draft: 1970 Vietnam draft lottery summary

Description

The data set draft contains average lottery numbers by month for the 1970 Draft Lottery. In December of 1969 the U.S. randomly drew from the 366 possible birthdays without replacement. The draw order of each birhtday determined the order by which men born between 1944-1950 (those eligible in the 1970 draft) were drafted. For example, a person with a birthday lottery number of 63 was drafted fairly early in 1970; a person with number 300 was not drafted at all. Sommers (2003, Chance Magazine) looked up deaths by age and birthday on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Thus, the data set has deaths by month as well.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 12 observations on the following 4 variables.

month

: Month of the birthday

lottnum

: Average lottery number of all birthdays in the month

deaths

: Total number of deaths by month

order

: breaks months into 2 groups (first for Jan-June and second for July-Dec)

References

Death statistics available on-line at http://thewall-usa.com/.