R: Corporal Punishment Data

Punishment {vcd} | R Documentation

## Corporal Punishment Data

### Description

Data from a study of the Gallup Institute in Denmark in 1979 about the attitude of a random sample of 1,456 persons towards corporal punishment of children.

### Usage

    data("Punishment")

### Format

A data frame with 36 observations and 5 variables.

Freq

  frequency.

attitude

  factor indicating attitude: (no, moderate) punishment of children.

memory

  factor indicating whether the person had memories of corporal punishment as a child (yes, no).

education

  factor indicating highest level of education (elementary, secondary, high).

age

  factor indicating age group in years (15-24, 25-39, 40-).

### Note

Anderson (1991) erroneously indicates the total sum of respondents to be 783.

### Source

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data, pages 207–208.

### References

E. B. Andersen (1991), The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. 2nd edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

### Examples

    data("Punishment", package = "vcd")
    pun <- xtabs(Freq ~ memory + attitude + age + education, data = Punishment)

    ## model: ~ (memory + attitude) * age * education
    ## use maximum sum-of-squares test/shading
    cotabplot(~ memory + attitude | age + education, data = pun, panel = cotab_coindep,
      n = 5000, type = "assoc", test = "maxchisq", interpolate = 1:2)

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