Lefthanded {abd}

Left-handedness and Rates of Violence

Description

Prevalence of left-handedness (percent.left) and homicide rates (murder) for 8 societies.

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 2 variables.

percent.left

a numeric vector

murder.rate

a numeric vector

Source

Faurie, C. and M. Raymond. 2005. Handedness, homicide and negative frequency-dependent selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 272: 25-28.

References

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/272/1558/25.abstract

Examples

str(Lefthanded)
xyplot(murder.rate ~ percent.left, Lefthanded)