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).

datasets

This package is a companion to the textbook S. Weisberg (2014),
"Applied Linear Regression," 4rd edition, Wiley. It includes all the
data sets discussed in the book and one function to access the textbook's
website.
This package depends on the car package.  Many data files in this package
are included in the alr3 package as well, so only one of them should be
loaded.

Sanford Weisberg

alr4

Data to accompany Applied Linear Regression 4rd 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>y</dt><dd>
 died or survived, a factor
    </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>
 A factor with levels 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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