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

Usage
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::

    data("Suicide")

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

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

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

Examples
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::

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

