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all.us.city.crime.1970: Hartigan (1975) City Crime

Description

The table records city crime along with population statistics. This is Table 18.6 in Chapter 18 of Hartigan (1975) on page 342.

Usage

data(all.us.city.crime.1970)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 10 variables.
city
a character vector for the city name
population
a numeric vector for th epopulation in thousands
white.change
a numeric vector for the percent change in inner city white population from 1960 to 1970
black.population
a numeric vector for the black population in thousands
murder
a numeric vector for the murder rate
rape
a numeric vector for the rape rate
robbery
a numeric vector for the robbery rate
assault
a numeric vector for the assault rate
burglary
a numeric vector for the burglary rate
car.theft
a numeric vector for the car theft rate

Source

The Statistical Abstract of the United States (1971), Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce, Grossett and Dunlop, New York. SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

All rate variables are per 100,000 population. Hartigan suggests using the AID algorithm on this data set.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

Run this code
data(all.us.city.crime.1970)

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