popdata {lawstat}

Population Size of 33 Districts of the Tennessee Legislature in 1900, 1960, and 1972

Description

The Baker v. Carr Case: one-person-one-vote decision. Measure of Relative Inequality of Population data in 33 districts of the Tennessee Legislature in 1900, 1960, and 1972 (Gastwirth 1988).

Usage

data(popdata)

Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 3 numeric variables:

pop1900

population data in 1900

pop1960

population data in 1960

pop1972

population data in 1972

Source

Gastwirth (1988).

References

Gastwirth JL (1988). Statistical Reasoning in Law and Public Policy: Statistical Concepts and Issues of Fairness, volume 1. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.