Toxic {BSDA}R Documentation

Hazardous waste sites near minority communities

Description

Data for Exercises 1.55, 5.08, 5.109, 8.58, and 10.35

Usage

Toxic

Format

A data frame with 51 observations on the following 5 variables.

state
a factor with levels alabama alaska arizona arkansas california colorado connecticut delaware dist of columbia florida georgia hawaii idaho illinois indiana iowa kansas kentucky louisiana maine maryland massachusetts michigan minnesota mississippi missouri 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
region
a factor with levels midwest northeast south west
sites
a numeric vector
minority
a numeric vector
percent
a numeric vector

Source

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

Examples

str(Toxic)
attach(Toxic)
hist(minority,prob=TRUE)
lines(density(minority))
sign.test(sites,conf.level=.98)
boxplot(sites~region)
kruskal.test(sites~as.factor(region))
detach(Toxic)

[Package BSDA version 0.1 Index]