Reported victims of crime data
The data shows whether victims of crime were reported in the local media.
data(VictimsOfCrime)
A data frame with 10590 observations on the following 2 variables.
reportedWhether the crime was reported in local media.
agethe age of the victim
Whether the crime was reported in local media.
The data were given by Prof Brian Francis of Lancaster University. They can be used to demonstrate the usefulness of smoothing techniques with a binary response variable.
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Rigby, R. A., Stasinopoulos, D. M., Heller, G. Z., and De Bastiani, F. (2019) Distributions for modeling location, scale, and shape: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC. An older version can be found in https://www.gamlss.com/.
Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R.
Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, https://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07/.
Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A., Heller G., Voudouris V., and De Bastiani F., (2017) Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC.
(see also https://www.gamlss.com/).
data(VictimsOfCrime)
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