Murder data from the FBI, Crime in the United States, 2008.
0 = "0", "zero", or "no"
1 = "1" or "one"
2 = "2" or "two"
…
10 = "10" or "ten"
The chart clearly shows the trend of increased planned deliveries, such as inducement and caesarian births. Saturday and Sunday births are flat to down from 2000 to 2006, while every other day of the week has seen an increase over the same period. Also interesting is that Monday is a relatively unpopular day for delivery.
It really looks like four distinct distributions: Sunday, Monday, Saturday, and then everything else.
Data is for USA births as reported in the CDC National Vital Statistics reports, 2001 data missing.
MP3 for Just a Minute added to the Music page.
Just a Minute is a sixty second warm up written by John Schneider for drumline. It combines various warmup rudiments into a single piece for the combined battery ensemble.
We know it’s not cold winter nights since December is summer in Australia.
USA data from CDC National Vital Statistics reports, 2001 data missing. Australia data from Australian Bureau of Statistics.