Violent Crime Rates by US State

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Violent Crime Rates by US State#

This data set contains statistics, in arrests per 100,000 residents for assault, murder, and rape in each of the 50 US states in 1973. Also given is the percent of the population living in urban areas.

  • Murder: Murder arrests (per 100,000)

  • Assault: Assault arrests (per 100,000)

  • UrbanPop: Percent urban population

  • Rape: Rape arrests (per 100,000)

Notes#

From the R base package. See help with command ?USArrests (in R)

from statsmodels.datasets import get_rdataset
USArrests = get_rdataset('USArrests').data

USArrests.shape

(50, 4)

USArrests.columns

Index(['Murder', 'Assault', 'UrbanPop', 'Rape'], dtype='object')

USArrests.describe()
Murder Assault UrbanPop Rape
count 50.00000 50.000000 50.000000 50.000000
mean 7.78800 170.760000 65.540000 21.232000
std 4.35551 83.337661 14.474763 9.366385
min 0.80000 45.000000 32.000000 7.300000
25% 4.07500 109.000000 54.500000 15.075000
50% 7.25000 159.000000 66.000000 20.100000
75% 11.25000 249.000000 77.750000 26.175000
max 17.40000 337.000000 91.000000 46.000000
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