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Name:

Mental Health Admissions

Description:

Admissions to a mental health emergency room and full moons

Variables:

A dataset with 36 observations on the following 4 variables.

Month	Month of the year
Moon	Relationship to full moon: After, Before, or During
Admission	Number of emergency room admissions

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Files:

Mental Health Admissions_805_16.csv

License Type:

Public Domain (CC0)

References/Notes/Attributions:

Source

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Applications by Richard J. Larsen and Morris L. Marx. Prentice Hall:Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1986.

References

The original discussion of the study is in Blackman, S., and Catalina, D. (1973). "The moon and the emergency room." Perceptual and Motor Skills 37, 624-626.

R Dataset Upload:

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

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Mental_Health_Admissions_805_16.csv")