Data for Exercise 9.11 and 9.17

Poverty

Format

A data frame/tibble with 20 observations on four variables

city

a factor with levels Atlanta, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, O, Detroit, Flint, Mich, Fresno, C, Gary, Ind, Hartford, C, Laredo, Macon, Ga, Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Newark, NJ, Rochester,NY, Shreveport, St. Louis, and Waco, Tx

poverty

percent of children living in poverty

crime

crime rate (per 1000 people)

population

population of city

Source

Children's Defense Fund and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

References

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

Examples


plot(poverty ~ crime, data = Poverty)
model <- lm(poverty ~ crime, data = Poverty)
abline(model, col = "red")

summary(model)
#> 
#> Call:
#> lm(formula = poverty ~ crime, data = Poverty)
#> 
#> Residuals:
#>     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
#> -4.9540 -3.1121 -0.5467  2.5390  6.5606 
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#>             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
#> (Intercept)   39.116      1.858  21.052 3.97e-14 ***
#> crime          0.181      0.171   1.058    0.304    
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> 
#> Residual standard error: 3.667 on 18 degrees of freedom
#> Multiple R-squared:  0.05857,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.006268 
#> F-statistic:  1.12 on 1 and 18 DF,  p-value: 0.3039
#> 
rm(model)