vcd (version 0.9-0)

Saxony: Families in Saxony

Description

Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rohlf (1969) and Lindsey (1995) on gender distributions in families in Saxony in the 19th century.

Usage

data(Saxony)

format

A 1-way table giving the number of male children in 6115 families of size 12. The variable and its levels are rll{ No Name Levels 1 nMales 0, 1, ..., 12 }

source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 40--42.

References

J. K. Lindsey (1995), Analysis of Frequency and Count Data. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rohlf (1969), Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data(Saxony)
gf <- goodfit(Saxony, type = "binomial")
summary(gf)
plot(gf)