SuicideR Documentation

Suicide Rates in Germany

Description

Data from Heuer (1979) on suicide rates in West Germany classified by age, sex, and method of suicide.

Usage

data("Suicide")

Format

A data frame with 306 observations and 6 variables.

Freq

frequency of suicides.

sex

factor indicating sex (male, female).

method

factor indicating method used.

age

age (rounded).

age.group

factor. Age classified into 5 groups.

method2

factor indicating method used (same as method but some levels are merged).

Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/suicide.sas

References

J. Heuer (1979), Selbstmord bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart.

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

Examples

data("Suicide")
structable(~ sex + method2 + age.group, data = Suicide)