Though I agree that the violent death rate in US cities is sad, I would also guess that the estimates are relatively accurate. I would also say that the "experimental design" assumed in the article is potentially badly flawed, with tremendous underreporting in Iraq and meticulous reporting in US cities. Hank On May 19, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Elio Mineo wrote:
> For what the article says, every country should have a war to have a > lower violent death rate!! > > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > >> I came across this one: >> >> http://www.nysun.com/article/32787 >> >> which says that the violent death rate in Iraq (which presumably >> includes violent deaths from the war) is lower than the violent >> death rate in major American cities. >> >> Does anyone have any insights from statistics on how to >> interpret this? >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> >> >> > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > Angelo M. Mineo > Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche e Matematiche "S. Vianelli" > Università degli Studi di Palermo > Viale delle Scienze > 90128 Palermo > url: http://dssm.unipa.it/elio > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html Dr. M. Hank H. Stevens, Assistant Professor 338 Pearson Hall Botany Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056 Office: (513) 529-4206 Lab: (513) 529-4262 FAX: (513) 529-4243 http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~stevenmh/ http://www.muohio.edu/ecology/ http://www.muohio.edu/botany/ "E Pluribus Unum" ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
