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| HorseKicks   | R Documentation   |
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Death by Horse Kicks
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Description
~~~~~~~~~~~

Data from von Bortkiewicz (1898), given by Andrews \\& 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 ``VonBort`` data.

Usage
~~~~~

::

    data("HorseKicks")

Format
~~~~~~

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

+------+-----------+----------------+
| No   | Name      | Levels         |
+------+-----------+----------------+
| 1    | nDeaths   | 0, 1, ..., 4   |
+------+-----------+----------------+
+------+-----------+----------------+

Source
~~~~~~

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data, page 18.

References
~~~~~~~~~~

D. F. Andrews & A. M. Herzberg (1985), *Data: A Collection of Problems
from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker*. Springer-Verlag,
New York, NY.

R. A. Fisher (1925), *Statistical Methods for Research Workers*. Oliver
\\& Boyd, London.

L. von Bortkiewicz (1898), *Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen*. Teubner,
Leipzig.

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

See Also
~~~~~~~~

``VonBort``

Examples
~~~~~~~~

::

    data("HorseKicks")
    gf <- goodfit(HorseKicks)
    summary(gf)
    plot(gf)

