Hallo everyone, excuse me if this is not a genuine R question but I do not know where to ask else. Referring to e.g. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-December/062114.html I wonder if these measurements of 3000 criminals (raw data) are available anywhere. At least I didn't find them in the R datasets package or by means of Google. What I did find was a table of frequencies of the central values for *grouped* classifications (finger lenghts) in the Handbook of Small Data Sets. Thank you in advance. D. Trenkler -- Dietrich Trenkler c/o Universitaet Osnabrueck Rolandstr. 8; D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany email: Dietrich.Trenkler at Uni-Osnabrueck.de
Dietrich Trenkler <Dietrich.Trenkler <at> uni-osnabrueck.de> writes:> > Hallo everyone, > > excuse me if this is not a genuine R question but I do not know where to > ask else. > > Referring to e.g. > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-December/062114.html > > I wonder if these measurements of 3000 criminals (raw data) are > available anywhere. At least I didn't find them in the R datasets > package or by means of Google. What I did find was a table of > frequencies of the central values for *grouped* classifications (finger > lenghts) in the Handbook of Small Data Sets. > > Thank you in advance. > > D. Trenkler >The original paper on JSTOR (Biometrika Vol I, no 2, 1902, W. R. Macdonell) gives tables of bivariate distributions (head length vs head breadth, height vs head breadth, height vs left middle finger length) for the 3000-criminal sample, a 1306-criminal subsample, and for a sample of "1000 Cambridge men". It would be an interesting challenge for a historian of science ... Ben Bolker
> Hallo everyone, > > excuse me if this is not a genuine R question but I do not know where to > ask else. > > Referring to e.g. > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-December/062114.html > > I wonder if these measurements of 3000 criminals (raw data) are > available anywhere. At least I didn't find them in the R datasets > package or by means of Google. What I did find was a table of > frequencies of the central values for *grouped* classifications (finger > lenghts) in the Handbook of Small Data Sets. > > Thank you in advance. > > D. TrenklerDietrich, I'm not sure, but this is perhaps what you want: crim <- read.table("http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/donnees/criminals1902.txt") For some R code playing with this dataset, open this (draft) document: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/convergencet.pdf and jump to section 4. HTH, Jean -- Jean R. Lobry (lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/
> >On that basis, and having looked at Jean's PDF > >http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/convergencet.pdf > >the table on the 11th page thereof (Section 4) seems to be >a facsimile reproduction of the corresponding page in the >Biometrika article by Macdonell. (I do not have access at >the moment to the original Biometrika, so cannot verify this), >and that table gives the data as originally published by >Macdonell. >Ted, Yes, indeed, this is a screen-copy from the Macdonell paper scanned in JSTOR. As you have guessed we (Anne-B?atrice Dufour and mylself) have entered the data, checked that margins were consistent, and converted height in cm. We were planning to use this for teaching: a practical under R to reproduce Student's original experiment, but we didn't have the time up to now to write the handout. Best, Jean -- Jean R. Lobry (lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/