Suicide                 package:vcd                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified
     by age, sex, and method of suicide.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Suicide)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

     _F_r_e_q frequency of suicides,

     _s_e_x factor indicating sex (male, female),

     _m_e_t_h_o_d factor indicating method used,

     _a_g_e age (rounded),

     _a_g_e._g_r_o_u_p factor. Age classified into 5 groups,

     _m_e_t_h_o_d_2 factor indicating method used (same as 'method' but some
          levels are merged).

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: <URL:
     http://hotspur.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/suicide.sas>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     J. Heuer (1979), _Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen_. Ernst
     Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.

     M. Friendly (2000), _Visualizing Categorical Data_. SAS Institute,
     Cary, NC.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(Suicide)
     ftable(xtabs(Freq ~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide))

