The Linert suicide Data

Description

Data from the Linert suicide example for CFA. The data is in data list representation (each row is one case).

Usage

  data(suicide)

Format

A data.frame with 3 columns (as factors).

Details

The three columns are named 'Geschlecht', 'Epoche' and 'Suizidart' which is 'gender', 'epoch' and 'type od suicide'. each of the variables are factors with the following levels:

Geschlecht: 'm' = 1 (male); 'w' = 2 (female)

Epoche: '44' = 1 (the epoch 1944); '52' = 2 (the epoch 1952)

Suizidart: 'Eh' = 1(hang); 'Es' = 2 (shoot); 'Et' = 3(drown); 'G' = 4(gas); 'H' = 5(crashing down); 'P' = 6(open vein); 'S' = 7(barbiturate);

References

Krauth, J., & Lienert, G. A. (1973). Die Konfigurationsfrequenzanalyse (KFA) und ihre Anwendung in Psychologie und Medizin: ein multivariates nichtparametrisches Verfahren zur Aufdeckung von Typen und Syndromen; mit 70 Tabellen. Freiburg; M<c3><83><c2><bc>nchen: Alber Karl.

Examples

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data(suicide) # to load the data.frame included in the package
class(suicide)
dim(suicide)
str(suicide)

Results