Saxony {vcd}R Documentation

Families in Saxony

Description

Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rholf (1969) and Lindsey (1995) on sex 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
No Name Levels
1 nMales 0, 1, ..., 12

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pp. 40-42.

References

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

R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rholf (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)

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