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Admissions to a mental health emergency room and full moons

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A dataset with 36 observations on the following 4 variables.

Month Month of the year
Moon Relationship to full moon: After, Before, or During
Admission Number of emergency room admissions

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Mental Health Admissions_805_16.csv

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Source

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and its Applications by Richard J. Larsen and Morris L. Marx. Prentice Hall:Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1986.

References

The original discussion of the study is in Blackman, S., and Catalina, D. (1973). "The moon and the emergency room." Perceptual and Motor Skills 37, 624-626.

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Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Mental_Health_Admissions_805_16.csv")

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