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Musician mortality data, 1956-2007

Queensland University of Technology
Barnett, Adrian ; Graves, Nicholas
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© M. Wolkewitz, A. Allignol, N. Graves and A. Barnett, 2011

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Data and statistical code used in this study were collected from publicly available websites. Analysed data are freely accessible from the links provided. Wikipedia article re-use guided by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Associate Professor Adrian Barnett
Ph: +61 7 3138 6010
Fax: +61 7 3138 6030

a.barnett@qut.edu.au

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This collection includes a comma-separated file (.csv) containing musician's dates of birth, dates of number one hit, and dates of death; a data file for the R software (RData file) to accompany the .csv file; R syntax to create a Lexis diagram displaying all data by calendar time and age at death; and R syntax to create death rates and musicians at risk figures. Data were obtained from Wikipedia, using the lists of number one albums by decade, starting with 1956 and ending at 2007.

Using this data, researchers investigated whether famous musicians are at an increased risk of death at age 27, thereby testing the "27 club" hypothesis.

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The R Project for Statistical Computing: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (for UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS).
uri : http://www.r-project.org/

The Human Mortality Database: Death rates per 100 person years in the UK population by decade of birth were used for comparison in this research.
uri : http://www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/country.php?cntr=GBR&level=2

Data time period: 1956 to 31 12 2007

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27 club | Death | Epidemiology | Fame | Medical and Health Sciences | Mortality | Musician | Public Health and Health Services | R software |

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