Inmate {BSDA}

Type of drug offense by race

Description

Data for Statistical Insight Chapter 8

Usage

Inmate

Format

A data frame/tibble with 28,047 observations on two variables

race

a factor with levels white, black, and hispanic

drug

a factor with levels heroin, crack, cocaine, and marijuana

Source

C. Wolf Harlow (1994), Comparing Federal and State Prison Inmates, NCJ-145864, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

T1 <- xtabs(~race + drug, data = Inmate)
T1
chisq.test(T1)
rm(T1)