suicide {faraway}R Documentation

Suicide method data from the UK

Description

One year of suicide data from the United Kingdom crossclassified by sex, age and method.

Usage

data(suicide)

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 4 variables.

y
number of people
cause
method used - a factor with levels drug (suicide by solid or liquid matter), gas, gun (guns, knives or explosives) hang (hanging, strangling, suffocating or drowning, jump other
age
a factor with levels m (middle-aged) o (old) y (young)
sex
a factor with levels f m

Source

Everitt B. & Dunn G. (1991) "Applied Multivariate Data Analysis" Edward Arnold


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