Operating expenditures per resident for each of the state law enforcement agencies

Data for Exercise 6.62

Statelaw

Format

A data frame/tibble with 50 observations on two variables

state

U.S. state

cost

dollars spent per resident on law enforcement

Source

Bureau of Justice Statistics, Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 1993, NCJ-148825, September 1995, page 84.

References

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

Examples

EDA(Statelaw$cost)
#> [1] "Statelaw$cost"

#> Size (n)  Missing  Minimum   1st Qu     Mean   Median   TrMean   3rd Qu 
#>   46.000    4.000    1.000    3.000    8.957    5.500    7.571   11.000 
#>     Max.   Stdev.     Var.  SE Mean   I.Q.R.    Range Kurtosis Skewness 
#>   59.000   10.696  114.398    1.577    8.000   58.000    8.676    2.705 
#> SW p-val 
#>    0.000 
SIGN.test(Statelaw$cost, md = 8, alternative = "less")
#> 
#> 	One-sample Sign-Test
#> 
#> data:  Statelaw$cost
#> s = 15, p-value = 0.05864
#> alternative hypothesis: true median is less than 8
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#>  -Inf    8
#> sample estimates:
#> median of x 
#>         5.5 
#> 
#> Achieved and Interpolated Confidence Intervals: 
#> 
#>                   Conf.Level L.E.pt U.E.pt
#> Lower Achieved CI     0.9481   -Inf      8
#> Interpolated CI       0.9500   -Inf      8
#> Upper Achieved CI     0.9730   -Inf      8
#>