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Mortality data from ancient Egypt

Source: R/data-egypt.R
egypt.Rd

Age at death of 141 Roman era Egyptian mummies.

Usage

egypt

Format

A tibble with 141 observations and 2 variables:

age

Age at death.

sex

Sex of deceased; 82 males and 49 females.

Details

This data was collected by Spiegelberg (1901) and analyzed by Karl Pearson (1902) in the first volume of Biometrika. It was analyzed by Claeskens & Hjort (2008) and the data is based on their transcription.

References

Spiegelberg, W. (1901). Aegyptische und Griechische Eigennamen aus Mumientiketten der R<U+00F6>mischen Kaiserzeit.

Pearson, K. (1902). On the change in expectation of life in man during a period of circa 2000 years. Biometrika, 1(2), 261-264.

Claeskens, G., & Hjort, N. L. (2008). Model selection and model averaging. Cambridge University Press.

See also

The source of the data is https://feb.kuleuven.be/public/u0043181/modelselection/datasets/egyptlives_data.txt

Examples

egypt
#> # A tibble: 141 × 2
#>      age sex  
#>    <dbl> <chr>
#>  1  1.5  male 
#>  2  1.83 male 
#>  3  2    male 
#>  4  2    male 
#>  5  3    male 
#>  6  3    male 
#>  7  3    male 
#>  8  4    male 
#>  9  4    male 
#> 10  4    male 
#> # ℹ 131 more rows