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Draft Lottery Data
Description
Data from the 1970 military draft lottery. The lottery assigned numbers to potential draftees by their birth date. Those with lower draft numbers were drafted first.
Usage
draftlottery
Format
31 obs. of 13 variables
- Day
Day of month.
- Jan
Draft numbers for January birthdays by day of month.
- Feb
Draft numbers for February birthdays by day of month.
- Mar
Draft numbers for March birthdays by day of month.
- Apr
Draft numbers for April birthdays by day of month.
- May
Draft numbers for May birthdays by day of month.
- Jun
Draft numbers for June birthdays by day of month.
- Jul
Draft numbers for July birthdays by day of month.
- Aug
Draft numbers for August birthdays by day of month.
- Sep
Draft numbers for September] birthdays by day of month.
- Oct
Draft numbers for October birthdays by day of month.
- Nov
Draft numbers for November birthdays by day of month.
- Dec
Draft numbers for December birthdays by day of month.
Note
This is the data in "draft-lottery.txt".
References
Moore, David S. and George P. McCabe (1989). Introduction to the Practice of Statistics.
See Fienberg, S. E. (1971), Starr, N. (1997), and "Draft Lottery (1969)", Wikipedia.org for further discussion.