Choice of presidental ticket in 1984 by gender

Data for Exercise 8.23

Ferraro1

Format

A data frame/tibble with 1000 observations on two variables

gender

a factor with levels Men and Women

candidate

a character vector of 1984 president and vice-president candidates

References

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

Examples

T1 <- xtabs(~gender + candidate, data = Ferraro1)
T1
#>        candidate
#> gender  Reagan/Bush Mondale/Ferraro Undecided
#>   Men           245             140       115
#>   Women         205             160       135
chisq.test(T1)  
#> 
#> 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
#> 
#> data:  T1
#> X-squared = 6.4889, df = 2, p-value = 0.03899
#> 
rm(T1)