| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Provide Extensions to the Prussian Army Death by Horsekick Data |
| Version: | 1.0.2 |
| Author: | Bill Venables [aut, cre], Antony Unwin [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Bill Venables <bill.venables@gmail.com> |
| Description: | We provide extensions to the classical dataset "Example 4: Death by the kick of a horse in the Prussian Army" first used by Ladislaus von Bortkeiwicz in his treatise on the Poisson distribution "Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen", <doi:10.1017/S0370164600019453>. As well as an extended time series for the horse-kick death data, we also provide, in parallel, deaths by falling from a horse and by drowning. |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.2 |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr |
| VignetteBuilder: | knitr |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2025-02-05 00:12:42 UTC; Bill |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2025-02-05 18:40:02 UTC |
hkdeaths
Description
The original death by horse-kick data of von Bortkiewicz, with extensions and a minor correction of an apparent transcription error in the data quoted by von Bortkiewicz. The time span is extended from 1875-1894 to 1875-1907, and deaths by falling from a horse and by drowning are also included.
Usage
hkdeaths
Format
A data frame with 462 rows and 8 columns:
- year
integer: The year of the record
- corps
factor: The army corps involved
- regiments
integer: The number of regiments in the corps as given by von Bortkiewicz
- NCOs
integer: The number of non-commissioned officer horse-kick deaths. These were included in the total numbers and only additionally separately reported up till 1899.
- kick
integer: The number of deaths by horse-kick
- drown
integer: The number of deaths by drowning
- fall
integer: The number of deaths by falling from a horse
- vonB_kick
integer: The original (shorter) horse-kick deaths series used by von Bortkiewicz, including the transcription error