donner


The Donner Party was the most famous tragedy in the history of the
westward migration in the United States.  In the winter of 1846-47,
abount ninety wagon train emigrants were unable to cross the Sierra
Nevada Mountains of California before winter, and almost one-half starved
to death.  Perhaps because they were ordinary people -- farmers,
merchants, parents, children.
These data include some information about each of the members of the party
from Johnson (1996).

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This package is a companion to the textbook S. Weisberg (2005),
"Applied Linear Regression," 3rd edition, Wiley. It includes all the
data sets discussed in the book (except one), and a few functions that
are tailored to the methods discussed in the book.  As of version 2.0.0,
this package depends on the car package. Many functions formerly
in alr3 have been renamed and now reside in car.
Data files have beeen lightly modified to make some data columns row labels.

Sanford Weisberg

alr3

Data to accompany Applied Linear Regression 3rd edition

donner function

This data frame uses the person's name as row labels 
and contains the following columns:
 <dl>
    <dt>Age</dt><dd>
 Approximate age in 1846
    </dd> <dt>Outcome</dt><dd>
 1 if survived, 0 if died
    </dd> <dt>Sex</dt><dd>
 Male or Female
    </dd> <dt>Family.name</dt><dd>
 Either a family name, hired or single
    </dd> <dt>Status</dt><dd>
 Family, single or hired
    </dd> </dl> 

Format

Johnson, K. (1996). <em>Unfortunate Emigrants: Narratives of the
Donner Party.</em> Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 
<a href="http://www.metrogourmet.com/crossroads/KJhome.htm">http://www.metrogourmet.com/crossroads/KJhome.htm</a>.

donner: Donner party

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