R: Suicide Rates in Germany

Suicide {vcd} | R Documentation

## Suicide Rates in Germany

### Description

Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by age, sex, and method of suicide.

### Usage

    data("Suicide")

### Format

A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

Freq

  frequency of suicides.

sex

  factor indicating sex (male, female).

method

  factor indicating method used.

age

  age (rounded).

age.group

  factor. Age classified into 5 groups.

method2

  factor indicating method used (same as `method` but some levels are merged).

### Source

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

### References

J. Heuer (1979), Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.

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

### Examples

    data("Suicide")
    structable(~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide)

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