Crowding and Crime in U. S. Metropolitan Areas

Description

The Freedman data frame has 110 rows and 4 columns. The observations are U. S. metropolitan areas with 1968 populations of 250,000 or more. There are some missing data.

Usage

Freedman

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

population

Total 1968 population, 1000s.

nonwhite

Percent nonwhite population, 1960.

density

Population per square mile, 1968.

crime

Crime rate per 100,000, 1969.

Source

United States (1970) Statistical Abstract of the United States. Bureau of the Census.

References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.

Freedman, J. (1975) Crowding and Behavior. Viking.