Abortion rate by region of country

Data used in Exercise 8.51

Abortion

Format

A data frame with 51 observations on the following 10 variables.

state

a factor with levels alabama alaska arizona arkansas california colorado connecticut delaware dist of columbia florida georgia hawaii idaho illinois indiana iowa kansas kentucky louisiana maine maryland massachusetts michigan minnesota mississippi missouri montana nebraska nevada new hampshire new jersey new mexico new york north carolina north dakota ohio oklahoma oregon pennsylvania rhode island south carolina south dakota tennessee texas utah vermont virginia washington west virginia wisconsin wyoming

region

a factor with levels midwest northeast south west

regcode

a numeric vector

rate1988

a numeric vector

rate1992

a numeric vector

rate1996

a numeric vector

provide1988

a numeric vector

provide1992

a numeric vector

lowhigh

a numeric vector

rate

a factor with levels Low and High

Source

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Duxbury

Examples

T1 <- xtabs(~region + rate, data = Abortion)
T1
#>            rate
#> region      High Low
#>   midwest      3   9
#>   northeast    5   6
#>   south        7   8
#>   west         6   7
chisq.test(T1)
#> Warning: Chi-squared approximation may be incorrect
#> 
#> 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
#> 
#> data:  T1
#> X-squared = 1.6992, df = 3, p-value = 0.6371
#>