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snow: Data from John Snow's 1855 study of the cause of cholera

Description

A subset of the aggregated death rate data from Snow's legendary study of the source of the London Cholera outbreak.

Usage

snow

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 4 rows and 4 variables

year

Year

supplier

Water pump supplier

treatment

Status of water pump

deathrate

Deaths per 10k 1851 population

Details

This data is used in the Difference-in-Differences chapter of The Effect by Huntington-Klein.

References

Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.