R: Lifespans of UK 1st class cricketers born 1840-1960
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Lifespans of UK 1st class cricketers born 1840-1960
Description
Year and birth, lifespan, etc, of British first class cricketers,
born 1840-1960, whose handedness could be determined from
information in the Who's who of cricketers. The status
(alive=0, dead =1), and lifetime or lifespan, is for 1992.
Usage
data(cricketer)
Format
A data frame with 5960 observations on the following 8 variables.
left
a factor with levels rightleft
year
numeric, year of birth
life
numeric, lifetime or lifespan to 1992
dead
numeric (0 = alive (censored), 1 = dead, in 1992)
acd
numeric (0 = not accidental or not dead, 1
= accidental death)
kia
numeric (0 = not killed in action, 1
= killed in action)
inbed
numeric (0 = did not die in bed, 1
= died in bed)
cause
a factor with levels aliveacd
(accidental death) inbed (died in bed)
Details
Note that those 'killed in action' (mostly during World Wars I and II)
form a subset of those who died by accident.
Source
John Aggleton, Martin Bland. Data were collated as described in
Aggleton et al.
References
Aggleton JP, Bland JM, Kentridge RW, Neave NJ 1994. Handedness and
longevity: an archival study of cricketers. British Medical Journal
309, 1681-1684.
Bailey P, Thorne P, Wynne-Thomas P. 1993. Who's Who of Cricketers.
2nd ed, London, Hamlyn.
Bland M and Altman D. 2005. Do the left-handed die young?
Significance 2, 166-170.