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Name:

Death by Horse Kicks

Description:

Data from von Bortkiewicz (1898), given by Andrews \& Herzberg (1985), on number of deaths by horse or mule kicks in 10 (of 14 reported) corps of the Prussian army. 4 corps were not considered by Fisher (1925) as they had a different organization. This data set is a popular subset of the VonBort data.

Variables:

A 1-way table giving the number of deaths in 200 corps-years. The variable and its levels are

No	Name	Levels
1	nDeaths	0, 1, ..., 4

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Columns:

Files:

Death by Horse Kicks_288_82.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 18.

References

D. F. Andrews & A. M. Herzberg (1985), Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

R. A. Fisher (1925), Statistical Methods for Research Workers. Oliver \& Boyd, London.

L. von Bortkiewicz (1898), Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen. Teubner, Leipzig.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

R Dataset Upload:

Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Death_by_Horse_Kicks_288_82.csv")