VictimsOfCrime {gamlss.data}

Reported victims of crime data

Description

The data shows whether victims of crime were reported in the local media.

Usage

data(VictimsOfCrime)

Format

A data frame with 10590 observations on the following 2 variables.

reported

Whether the crime was reported in local media.

age

the age of the victim

Details

Whether the crime was reported in local media.

Source

The data were given by Prof Brian Francis of Lancaster University. They can be used to demonstrate the usefulness of smoothing techniques with a binary response variable.

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M.(2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape, (with discussion),Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Rigby, R. A., Stasinopoulos, D. M., Heller, G. Z., and De Bastiani, F. (2019) Distributions for modeling location, scale, and shape: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC. An older version can be found in https://www.gamlss.com/.

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R.

Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, doi:10.18637/jss.v023.i07.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A., Heller G., Voudouris V., and De Bastiani F., (2017) Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC.

(see also https://www.gamlss.com/).

Examples

data(VictimsOfCrime)