R: Death Rates in Virginia (1940)

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## Death Rates in Virginia (1940)

### Description

Death rates per 1000 in Virginia in 1940.

### Usage

    VADeaths

### Format

A matrix with 5 rows and 4 columns.

### Details

The death rates are measured per 1000 population per year. They 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

Molyneaux, 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

    require(stats); require(graphics)
    n <- length(dr <- c(VADeaths))
    nam <- names(VADeaths)
    d.VAD <- data.frame(
     Drate = dr,
     age = rep(ordered(rownames(VADeaths)), length.out = 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)

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