These data are in Table 9.1 of the 3rd edition of Agresti and Finlay's *Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences*. The data are from *Statistical Abstract of the United States* and most variables were measured in 1993.

af_crime93

## Format

A data frame with 51 observations on the following 8 variables.

state

a character vector for the state

violent

a numeric vector for the violent crime rate (per 100,000 people in population)

murder

a numeric vector for the murder rate (per 100,000 people in population)

poverty

a numeric vector for the percent with income below the poverty level

single

a numeric vector for the percent of families headed by a single parent

metro

a numeric vector for the percent of population in metropolitan areas

white

a numeric vector for the percentage of the state that is white

highschool

a numeric vector for the percent of state that graduated from high school

## Details

The data are from Statistical Abstract of the United States and most variables were measured in 1993. These data should result in regressions that would flunk a Breusch-Pagan test for heteroskedasticity.

## References

Agresti, Alan and Barbara Finley. 1997. Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. Prentice Hall. (3rd Edition)