death {faraway}R Documentation

Death penalty in Florida 1977

Description

Data on 326 defendents in homicide indictments in 20 Florida counties during 1976-77.

Usage

data(death)

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 4 variables.

y
a numeric vector
penalty
Did the subject recieve the death penalty? no or yes
victim
Was the victim black or white?
defend
Was the defendent black or white?

Source

Radelet M. (1981) Racial characteristics and the imposition of the death penalty. Amer. Sociol. Rev. 46 918-927.

References

Agresti A. (1990) Categorical Data Analysis, Wiley.


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