Prussian Horse Kick Data

The number of soldiers in the Prussian cavalry killed by horse kicks from 1875 to 1894

Originator: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

The data give the number of soldiers in the Prussian cavalry killed by horse kicks, by corp membership and by year. The years are from 1875 to 1894, and there are 14 different cavalry corps: the first column corresponds to the guard corp and the other columns to corps 1 through 11, 14, and 15. The data are from Distributome project and are derived from the 1985 book: Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker by David F. Andrews and A. M. Herzberg. The original source of the data is the classic 1898 book by von Bortkiewicz: Das Gesetz der kleinen Zahlen [The law of small numbers]. The data are famous because they seem to fit the Poisson model reasonably well.

(15 columns, 20 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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Visualization

Generate a bar chart of total losses by corps:

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With[{corps = Rest@Keys@First@ResourceData["Prussian Horse Kick Data"]}, BarChart[Total[ResourceData["Prussian Horse Kick Data"][All, #]] & /@
corps, ChartLabels -> Normal@corps]]

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Bibliographic Citation

Wolfram Research, "Prussian Horse Kick Data" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.31090.data

License Information

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Data Resource History

Date Created: 17 October 2016

Source Metadata

Title: Prussian Horse Kick Data
Creator: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
Contributor: Kyle Siegrist
Publisher: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Date: 1898
Description: Number of soldiers in the Prussian cavalry killed by horse kicks
Coverage: 1875-1894
Language: English
Source: http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/data/HorseKicks.html

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Publisher Information

Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research