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...39;ve come upon a potential error in the documentation of the 'swiss' datafram in the R base package. The description accurately matches what is said in the Mosteller and Tukey source quoted, but according to the data archived at Princeton (links from http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html), the variable that Mosteller and Tukey report as infant mortality is actually the proportion of 'draftees' with education beyond primary school. Infant mortality is on the archived file, but the values are quite a lot different. Of course, it's possible that Mosteller and Tukey we...

...tential error in the documentation > of the 'swiss' datafram in the R base package. The description accurately > matches what is said in the Mosteller and Tukey source quoted, but > according to the data archived at Princeton (links from > http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html), the variable that > Mosteller and Tukey report as infant mortality is actually the proportion > of 'draftees' with education beyond primary school. Infant mortality is on > the archived file, but the values are quite a lot different. Of course, > it's possible that Mo...

...39;ve come upon a potential error in the documentation of the 'swiss' datafram in the R base package. The description accurately matches what is said in the Mosteller and Tukey source quoted, but according to the data archived at Princeton (links from http://opr.princeton.edu/archive/eufert/switz.html), the variable that Mosteller and Tukey report as infant mortality is actually the proportion of 'draftees' with education beyond primary school. Infant mortality is on the archived file, but the values are quite a lot different. Of course, it's possible that Mosteller and Tukey we...