Birth {BSDA}R Documentation

Live birth rates in 1990 and 1998 for all states

Description

Data for Exercise 1.10

Usage

Birth

Format

A data frame with 51 observations on the following 3 variables.

State
a factor with levels Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Colunbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missour Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
X1990rate
a numeric vector
X1998rate
a numeric vector

Source

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Duxbury

Examples

str(Birth)
attach(Birth)
stem(X1998rate)
hist(X1998rate,breaks=seq(10.9,21.9,1.0),xlab="1998 Birth Rate",
main="Figure 1.14 in BSDA",col="pink")
hist(X1998rate,breaks=seq(10.9,21.9,1.0),xlab="1998 Birth Rate",
main="Figure 1.14 in BSDA",col="pink",prob=TRUE)
lines(density(X1998rate),col="red",lwd=2)
detach(Birth)

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