R: Reported victims of crime data

VictimsOfCrime {gamlss.data} | R Documentation

## Reported victims of crime data

### Description

The data shows whether victims of crime were reported in the local media.

### Usage

    data(VictimsOfCrime)

### Format

A data frame with 10590 observations on the following 2 variables.

`reported`

  Whether the crime was reported in local media.

`age`

  the age of the victim

### Details

Whether the crime was reported in local media.

### Source

The data were given by Prof Brian Francis of Lancaster University. They can be used to demonstrate the usefulness of smoothing techniques with a binary response variable.

### References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.org/).

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

### Examples

    data(VictimsOfCrime)

[Package gamlss.data version 5.1-0 Index]