Crime rates versus the percent of the population without a high school degree

Source: R/BSDA-package.R

Data for Exercise 2.41

Educat

Format

A data frame/tibble with 51 observations on three variables

state

a factor with levels Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missour, 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, and Wyoming

nodegree

percent of the population without a high school degree

crime

violent crimes per 100,000 population

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples


plot(crime ~ nodegree, data = Educat, 
     xlab = "Percent of population without high school degree",
     ylab = "Violent Crime Rate per 100,000")