Tort {BSDA}

The number of torts, average number of months to process a tort, and county population from the court files of the nation's largest counties

Description

Data for Exercise 5.13

Usage

Tort

Format

A data frame/tibble with 45 observations on five variables

county

U.S. county

months

average number of months to process a tort

population

population of the county

torts

number of torts

rate

rate per 10,000 residents

Source

U.S. Department of Justice, Tort Cases in Large Counties, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, April 1995.

References

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

Examples

EDA(Tort$months)