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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

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