Death Rate Data

Description

Death rates per 100 in Virginia in 1940.

Usage

data(VADeaths)

Format

A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.

Details

The death rates are cross-classified by age group (rows) and population group (columns). The age groups are: 50–54, 55–59, 60–64, 65–69, 70–74 and the population groups are Rural/Male, Rural/Female, Urban/Male and Urban/Female.

This provides a rather nice 3-way analysis of variance example.

Source

Moyneau, L., Gilliam, S. K., and Florant, L. C.(1947) Differences in Virginia death rates by color, sex, age, and rural or urban residence. American Sociological Review, 12, 525–535.

References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

Examples

data(VADeaths)
n <- length(dr <- c(VADeaths))
nam <- names(VADeaths)
d.VAD <- data.frame(
 Drate = dr,
 age = rep(ordered(rownames(VADeaths)),length=n),
 gender= gl(2,5,n, labels= c("M", "F")),
 site =  gl(2,10,  labels= c("rural", "urban")))
coplot(Drate ~ as.numeric(age) | gender * site, data = d.VAD,
       panel = panel.smooth, xlab = "VADeaths data - Given: gender")
summary(aov.VAD <- aov(Drate ~ .^2, data = d.VAD))
opar <- par(mfrow = c(2,2), oma = c(0, 0, 1.1, 0))
plot(aov.VAD)
par(opar)