The variables are state id (sid), state name (state), the violent crimes per 100,000 people (crime), murders per 1,000,000 (murder), the percent of the population living in metropolitan areas (pctmetro), the percent of the population that is white (pctwhite), percent of population with a high school education or above (pcths), percent of population living under poverty line (poverty), and percent of population that are single parents (single). ************************************************************************************ The response variable is crime and the predictors are murder, pctmetro, pctwhite, pcths, poverty and single. ************************************************************************************ This dataset appears in Statistical Methods for Social Sciences, Third Edition by Alan Agresti and Barbara Finlay (Prentice Hall, 1997). ************************************************************************************ sid state crime murder pctmetro pctwhite pcths poverty single 1.00 ak 761 9.00 41.80 75.20 86.60 9.10 14.30 2.00 al 780 11.60 67.40 73.50 66.90 17.40 11.50 3.00 ar 593 10.20 44.70 82.90 66.30 20.00 10.70 4.00 az 715 8.60 84.70 88.60 78.70 15.40 12.10 5.00 ca 1078 13.10 96.70 79.30 76.20 18.20 12.50 6.00 co 567 5.80 81.80 92.50 84.40 9.90 12.10 7.00 ct 456 6.30 95.70 89.00 79.20 8.50 10.10 8.00 de 686 5.00 82.70 79.40 77.50 10.20 11.40 9.00 fl 1206 8.90 93.00 83.50 74.40 17.80 10.60 10.00 ga 723 11.40 67.70 70.80 70.90 13.50 13.00 11.00 hi 261 3.80 74.70 40.90 80.10 8.00 9.10 12.00 ia 326 2.30 43.80 96.60 80.10 10.30 9.00 13.00 id 282 2.90 30.00 96.70 79.70 13.10 9.50 14.00 il 960 11.40 84.00 81.00 76.20 13.60 11.50 15.00 in 489 7.50 71.60 90.60 75.60 12.20 10.80 16.00 ks 496 6.40 54.60 90.90 81.30 13.10 9.90 17.00 ky 463 6.60 48.50 91.80 64.60 20.40 10.60 18.00 la 1062 20.30 75.00 66.70 68.30 26.40 14.90 19.00 ma 805 3.90 96.20 91.10 80.00 10.70 10.90 20.00 md 998 12.70 92.80 68.90 78.40 9.70 12.00 21.00 me 126 1.60 35.70 98.50 78.80 10.70 10.60 22.00 mi 792 9.80 82.70 83.10 76.80 15.40 13.00 23.00 mn 327 3.40 69.30 94.00 82.40 11.60 9.90 24.00 mo 744 11.30 68.30 87.60 73.90 16.10 10.90 25.00 ms 434 13.50 30.70 63.30 64.30 24.70 14.70 26.00 mt 178 3.00 24.00 92.60 81.00 14.90 10.80 27.00 nc 679 11.30 66.30 75.20 70.00 14.40 11.10 28.00 nd 82 1.70 41.60 94.20 76.70 11.20 8.40 29.00 ne 339 3.90 50.60 94.30 81.80 10.30 9.40 30.00 nh 138 2.00 59.40 98.00 82.20 9.90 9.20 31.00 nj 627 5.30 100.00 80.80 76.70 10.90 9.60 32.00 nm 930 8.00 56.00 87.10 75.10 17.40 13.80 33.00 nv 875 10.40 84.80 86.70 78.80 9.80 12.40 34.00 ny 1074 13.30 91.70 77.20 74.80 16.40 12.70 35.00 oh 504 6.00 81.30 87.50 75.70 13.00 11.40 36.00 ok 635 8.40 60.10 82.50 74.60 19.90 11.10 37.00 or 503 4.60 70.00 93.60 81.50 11.80 11.30 38.00 pa 418 6.80 84.80 88.70 74.70 13.20 9.60 39.00 ri 402 3.90 93.60 92.60 72.00 11.20 10.80 40.00 sc 1023 10.30 69.80 68.60 68.30 18.70 12.30 41.00 sd 208 3.40 32.60 90.20 77.10 14.20 9.40 42.00 tn 766 10.20 67.70 82.80 67.10 19.60 11.20 43.00 tx 762 11.90 83.90 85.10 72.10 17.40 11.80 44.00 ut 301 3.10 77.50 94.80 85.10 10.70 10.00 45.00 va 372 8.30 77.50 77.10 75.20 9.70 10.30 46.00 vt 114 3.60 27.00 98.40 80.80 10.00 11.00 47.00 wa 515 5.20 83.00 89.40 83.80 12.10 11.70 48.00 wi 264 4.40 68.10 92.10 78.60 12.60 10.40 49.00 wv 208 6.90 41.80 96.30 66.00 22.20 9.40 50.00 wy 286 3.40 29.70 95.90 83.00 13.30 10.80 51.00 dc 2922 78.50 100.00 31.80 73.10 26.40 22.10