egypt {univariateML}

Mortality data from ancient Egypt

Description

Age at death of 141 Roman era Egyptian mummies.

Usage

egypt

Format

A tibble with 141 observations and 2 variables:

age

Age at death.

sex

Sex of deceased; 82 males and 49 females.

Details

This data was collected by Spiegelberg (1901) and analyzed by Karl Pearson (1902) in the first volume of Biometrika. It was analyzed by Claeskens & Hjort (2008) and the data is based on their transcription.

References

Spiegelberg, W. (1901). Aegyptische und Griechische Eigennamen aus Mumientiketten der Römischen Kaiserzeit.

Pearson, K. (1902). On the change in expectation of life in man during a period of circa 2000 years. Biometrika, 1(2), 261-264.

Claeskens, G., & Hjort, N. L. (2008). Model selection and model averaging. Cambridge University Press.

See Also

The source of the data is https://feb.kuleuven.be/public/u0043181/modelselection/datasets/egyptlives_data.txt

Examples

egypt