Description

One year of suicide data from the United Kingdom crossclassified by sex, age and method.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 4 variables.

y

number of people

cause

method used - a factor with levels drug (suicide by solid or liquid matter), gas, gun (guns, knives or explosives) hang (hanging, strangling, suffocating or drowning, jump other

age

a factor with levels m (middle-aged) o (old) y (young)

sex

a factor with levels f m

Source

Everitt B. & Dunn G. (1991) "Applied Multivariate Data Analysis" Edward Arnold