carsafety {UsingR} | R Documentation |
Safety statistics appearing in a January 12th, 2004 issue of the New Yorker showing fatality rates per million vehicles both for drivers of a car, and drivers of other cars that are hit.
data(carsafety)
A data frame with 33 observations on the following 4 variables.
The article this data came from wishes to make the case that SUVs are not safer despite a perception among the U.S. public that they are.
From "Big and Bad" by Malcolm Gladwell. New Yorker, Jan. 12 2004 pp28-33. Data attributed to Tom Wenzel and Marc Ross who have written http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/assets/images/2002/Aug-26-2002/SUV-report.pdf.
data(carsafety) plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety) plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)