Sentence {BSDA}

Sentences of 41 prisoners convicted of a homicide offense

Description

Data for Exercise 1.123

Usage

Sentence

Format

A data frame/tibble with 41 observations on one variable

months

sentence length (in months) for prisoners convicted of homocide

Source

U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence, NCJ-153858, April 1995.

References

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

Examples

stem(Sentence$months)
ll <- mean(Sentence$months)-2*sd(Sentence$months)
ul <- mean(Sentence$months)+2*sd(Sentence$months)
limits <- c(ll, ul)
limits
rm(ul, ll, limits)