Deaths from Horse Kicks

Numbers of deaths resulting from horse kicks per regiment-years for the Prussian army.

Usage

Cavalry

Format

A data frame with 5 observations on the following 2 variables.

deaths

a numeric vector

count

a numeric vector

Source

Bortkiewicz, L. 1898. Das Gesetz der Kleinen Zahlen (Teubner, Leipzig), as cited in Larson, R.J. and M.L. Marx. 1981. An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Applications. Prentice-Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Examples

Cavalry
#>   deaths count
#> 1      0   109
#> 2      1    65
#> 3      2    22
#> 4      3     3
#> 5      4     1
xyplot(count ~ deaths, Cavalry, type='h', lwd=4)

barchart(count ~ deaths, Cavalry, horizontal = FALSE,
         box.ratio = 1000, origin=0)