For first-degree murder convictions10 in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, between 1990 and 2008, the death penalty was given in 3 out of 25 cases in which a white killed a white, in 0 out of 3 cases in which a white killed a black, in 9 out of 30 cases in which a black killed a white, and in 11 out of 132 cases in which a black killed a black. Table 4.7 shows software output for fitting a logistic regression model, where d = 1 (d = 0) for black (white) defendants and v = 1 (v = 0) for black

(white) victims. Summarize in a short, nontechnical report what you learn from this output.

Table 4.7 Logistic regression fit of death penalty data for Exercise 4.13.

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Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)

(Intercept) -2.0232 0.6137 -3.297 0.000978 d 1.1886 0.7236 1.643 0.100461 v -1.5713 0.5028 -3.125 0.001778 Residual deviance: 0.16676 on 1 degrees of freedom

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