death.penalty

Dataset detailing death penalty 674 homicide trials in the state of Florida from 1976-1987 with respect to verdict, and victim and defendant race. The data were previously used (Agresti 2012) to demonstrate Simpson's Paradox.

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Contains functions from: Aho, K. (2014) Foundational and Applied Statistics for Biologists using R.  CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN: 978-1-4398-7338-0.

Ken Aho

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death.penalty function

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>count</code></dt>
<dd>Counts from cross classifications.</dd> <dt><code>verdict</code></dt>
<dd>Death penalty verdict <code>No</code> <code>Yes</code>.</dd> <dt><code>d.race</code></dt>
<dd>Defendant's race <code>Black</code> <code>White</code>.</dd> <dt><code>v.race</code></dt>
<dd>Victims' race <code>Black</code> <code>White</code>.</dd> 
</dl>

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Florida state death penalty data — death.penalty

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>count</code></dt>
<dd>Counts from cross classifications.</dd>

 <dt><code>verdict</code></dt>
<dd>Death penalty verdict <code>No</code> <code>Yes</code>.</dd>

 <dt><code>d.race</code></dt>
<dd>Defendant's race <code>Black</code> <code>White</code>.</dd>

 <dt><code>v.race</code></dt>
<dd>Victims' race <code>Black</code> <code>White</code>.</dd>

 
</dl>

death.penalty: Florida state death penalty data

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