R: Families in Saxony

Saxony {vcd} | R Documentation

## Families in Saxony

### Description

Data from Geissler, cited in Sokal & Rohlf (1969) and Lindsey (1995) on gender distributions in families in Saxony in the 19th century.

### Usage

    data("Saxony")

### Format

A 1-way table giving the number of male children in 6115 families of size 12. The variable and its levels are

No | Name | Levels
1 | nMales | 0, 1, ..., 12

### Source

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, pages 40–42.

### References

J. K. Lindsey (1995), Analysis of Frequency and Count Data. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

R. R. Sokal & F. J. Rohlf (1969), Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA.

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

### Examples

    data("Saxony")
    gf <- goodfit(Saxony, type = "binomial")
    summary(gf)
    plot(gf)

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