Florida voter results in the 2000 presidential election

Data for Statistical Insight Chapter 2

Florida2000

Format

A data frame/tibble with 67 observations on 12 variables

county: a character variable with values ALACHUA, BAKER, BAY, BRADFORD, BREVARD, BROWARD, CALHOUN, CHARLOTTE, CITRUS, CLAY, COLLIER, COLUMBIA, DADE, DE SOTO, DIXIE, DUVAL, ESCAMBIA, FLAGLER, FRANKLIN, GADSDEN, GILCHRIST, GLADES, GULF, HAMILTON, HARDEE, HENDRY, HERNANDO, HIGHLANDS, HILLSBOROUGH, HOLMES, INDIAN RIVER, JACKSON, JEFFERSON, LAFAYETTE, LAKE, LEE, LEON, LEVY, LIBERTY, MADISON, MANATEE, MARION, MARTIN, MONROE, NASSAU, OKALOOSA, OKEECHOBEE, ORANGE, OSCEOLA, PALM BEACH, PASCO, PINELLAS, POLK, PUTNAM, SANTA ROSA, SARASOTA, SEMINOLE, ST. JOHNS, ST. LUCIE, SUMTER, SUWANNEE, TAYLOR, UNION, VOLUSIA, WAKULLA, WALTON, and WASHINGTON
gore: number of votes
bush: number of votes
buchanan: number of votes
nader: number of votes
browne: number of votes
hagelin: number of votes
harris: number of votes
mcreynolds: number of votes
moorehead: number of votes
phillips: number of votes
total: number of votes

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


plot(buchanan ~ total, data = Florida2000, 
     xlab = "Total votes cast (in thousands)", 
     ylab = "Votes for Buchanan")