carsafety               package:UsingR               R Documentation

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

     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.

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

     data(carsafety)

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

     A data frame with 33 observations on the following 4 variables.

     _M_a_k_e._m_o_d_e_l The make and model of the car

     _t_y_p_e Type of car

     _D_r_i_v_e_r._d_e_a_t_h_s Number of drivers deaths per year if 1,000,000 cars
          were on the road

     _O_t_h_e_r._d_e_a_t_h_s Number of deaths in other vehicle caused by accidents
          involving these cars per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the
          road

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     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.

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

     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 <URL:
     http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/assets/images/2002/Aug-26-2002/SUV-report.pdf>.

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

     data(carsafety)
     plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)
     plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)

