Cost of funeral by region of country

Data for Exercise 8.54

Funeral

Format

A data frame/tibble with 400 observations on two variables

region

a factor with levels Central, East, South, and West

cost

a factor with levels less than expected, about what expected, and more than expected

References

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

Examples

T1 <- xtabs(~region + cost, data = Funeral)
T1
#>          cost
#> region    less than expected about what expected more than expected
#>   Central                 20                  38                 42
#>   East                    12                  40                 48
#>   South                   34                  44                 22
#>   West                    15                  60                 25
chisq.test(T1)  
#> 
#> 	Pearson's Chi-squared test
#> 
#> data:  T1
#> X-squared = 34.786, df = 6, p-value = 4.74e-06
#> 
rm(T1)