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<h2>Death by Horse Kicks</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>Data from von Bortkiewicz (1898), given by Andrews \&amp; Herzberg (1985),
on number of deaths by horse or mule kicks in 10 (of 14 reported)
corps of the Prussian army.  4 corps were not considered by Fisher
(1925) as they had a different organization. This data set is a
popular subset of the <code>VonBort</code> data.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>
data("HorseKicks")
</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A 1-way table giving the number of deaths in 200 corps-years.  The
variable and its levels are
</p>

<table summary="Rd table">
<tr>
 <td align="right">
    No </td><td align="left"> Name </td><td align="left"> Levels </td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td align="right">
    1 </td><td align="left"> nDeaths </td><td align="left"> 0, 1, ..., 4 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td align="right">
  </td>
</tr>

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<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Michael Friendly (2000),
Visualizing Categorical Data, page 18.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>D. F. Andrews &amp; A. M. Herzberg (1985),
<EM>Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student
and Research Worker</EM>.
Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
</p>
<p>R. A. Fisher (1925),
<EM>Statistical Methods for Research Workers</EM>.
Oliver \&amp; Boyd, London.
</p>
<p>L. von Bortkiewicz (1898),
<EM>Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen</EM>.
Teubner, Leipzig.
</p>
<p>M. Friendly (2000),
<EM>Visualizing Categorical Data</EM>.
SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>


<p><code>VonBort</code>
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data("HorseKicks")
gf &lt;- goodfit(HorseKicks)
summary(gf)
plot(gf)
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