Saxony                  package:vcd                  R Documentation

_F_a_m_i_l_i_e_s _i_n _S_a_x_o_n_y

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

     Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rohlf (1969) and Lindsey
     (1995) on gender distributions in families in Saxony in the 19th
     century.

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

     data(Saxony)

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

     A 1-way table giving the number of male children in 6115 families
     of size 12.  The variable and its levels are

       No  Name    Levels
        1  nMales  0, 1, ..., 12

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

     M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 40-42.

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

     J. K. Lindsey (1995), _Analysis of Frequency and Count Data_.
     Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

     R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rohlf (1969), _Biometry. The Principles and
     Practice of Statistics_. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

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

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

     data(Saxony)
     gf <- goodfit(Saxony, type = "binomial")
     summary(gf)
     plot(gf)

