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Report on Gun Murders

Rafael Irizarry 2021-11-16

Introduction

This is a report on 2010 gun murder rates obtained from FBI reports. The original data was obtained from this Wikipedia page.

We are going to use the following library:

library(tidyverse)

## Warning: package 'tidyverse' was built under R version 4.1.1

## Warning: package 'readr' was built under R version 4.1.1

## Warning: package 'forcats' was built under R version 4.1.1

and load the data we already wrangled:

load("rdas/murders.rda")

Murder rate by state

We note the large state to state variability by generating a barplot showing the murder rate by state: