R: Von Bortkiewicz Horse Kicks Data

VonBort {vcd} | R Documentation

## Von Bortkiewicz Horse Kicks Data

### Description

Data from von Bortkiewicz (1898), given by Andrews \& Herzberg (1985), on number of deaths by horse or mule kicks in 14 corps of the Prussian army.

### Usage

    data("VonBort")

### Format

A data frame with 280 observations and 4 variables.

deaths

  number of deaths.

year

  year of the deaths.

corps

  factor indicating the corps.

fisher

  factor indicating whether the corresponding corps was considered by Fisher (1925) or not.

### Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/vonbort.sas

### References

D. F. Andrews \& A. M. Herzberg (1985), Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

R. A. Fisher (1925), Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Oliver & Boyd, London.

L. von Bortkiewicz (1898), Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen. Teubner, Leipzig.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

### See Also

`HorseKicks` for a popular subsample.

### Examples

    data("VonBort")
    ## HorseKicks data
    xtabs(~ deaths, data = VonBort, subset = fisher == "yes")

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