R: Violent Crime Rates by US State

USArrests {datasets} | R Documentation

## Violent Crime Rates by US State

### Description

This data set contains statistics, in arrests per 100,000 residents for assault, murder, and rape in each of the 50 US states in 1973. Also given is the percent of the population living in urban areas.

### Usage

    USArrests

### Format

A data frame with 50 observations on 4 variables.

[,1] | Murder | numeric | Murder arrests (per 100,000)
[,2] | Assault | numeric | Assault arrests (per 100,000)
[,3] | UrbanPop | numeric | Percent urban population
[,4] | Rape | numeric | Rape arrests (per 100,000)

### Source

World Almanac and Book of facts 1975. (Crime rates).

Statistical Abstracts of the United States 1975. (Urban rates).

### References

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

### See Also

The `state` data sets.

### Examples

    require(graphics)
    pairs(USArrests, panel = panel.smooth, main = "USArrests data")

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