R Dataset / Package gamclass / fars2008
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the fars2008 data set which pertains to US fatal road accident data, 2007 and 2008. The fars2008 data set is found in the gamclass R package. You can load the fars2008 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("fars2008"). This will load the data into a variable called fars2008. If R says the fars2008 data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("gamclass") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the fars2008 R data set. The size of this file is about 4,266,156 bytes.
US fatal road accident data, 2007 and 2008
Description
Data are included on variables that may be relevant to assessing airbag and seatbelt effectiveness in preventing fatal injury.
Usage
fars2007 fars2008
Format
A data frame with 72548 observations on the following 24 variables.
Obs.-
a numeric vector
state-
a numeric vector
casenum-
a numeric vector
vnum-
a numeric vector
pnum-
a numeric vector
lightcond-
a numeric vector
numfatal-
a numeric vector
vforms-
a numeric vector
age-
a numeric vector
airbag-
a numeric vector
injury-
a numeric vector
ptype-
a numeric vector
restraint-
a numeric vector
seatpos-
a numeric vector
sex-
a numeric vector
body-
a numeric vector
inimpact-
a numeric vector
mhevent-
a numeric vector
vfatcount-
a numeric vector
numoccs-
a numeric vector
travspd-
a numeric vector
make-
a numeric vector
model-
a numeric vector
modelyr-
a numeric vector
Details
Data is for automabiles where a passenger seat was occupied, with one observation for each such passenger.
Source
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
References
http://maths-people.anu.edu.au/~johnm/nzsr/taws.html
Olson CM, Cummings P, Rivara FP. 2006. Association of first- and second-generation air bags with front occupant death in car crashes: a matched cohort study. Am J Epidemiol 164:161-169
Cummings, P; McKnight, B, 2010. Accounting for vehicle, crash, and occupant characteristics in traffic crash studies. Injury Prevention 16: 363-366
Braver, ER; Shardell, M; Teoh, ER, 2010. How have changes in air bag designs affected frontal crash mortality? Ann Epidemiol 20:499-510.
Examples
data(fars2007) str(fars2007)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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