Musician mortality data, 1956-2007
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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.
Access rights
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).
Geographical area of data collection
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Global
Publications
Wolkewitz, Martin, Allignol, Arthur, Graves, Nicholas, and Barnett, Adrian. (2011). Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? Retrospective cohort study. BMJ (International Edition), 343(7837), pp. 1-6.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d7799
Research areas
Epidemiology
Mortality
Fame
27 club
Death
Musician
R software
Cite this collection
Wolkewitz, M; Allignol, A; Graves, N; Barnett, A; (2011); Musician mortality data, 1956-2007; Queensland University of Technology.
Barnett, Adrian; Graves, Nicholas (2012): Musician mortality data, 1956-2007. Queensland University of Technology. (Dataset) https://doi.org/10.4225/09/586b341df3104
Related information
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.
http://www.mortality.org/cgi-bin/hmd/country.php?cntr=GBR&level=2
The R Project for Statistical Computing: R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (for UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS).
http://www.r-project.org/
Martin Wolkewitz, collaborator on Famous Musicians Mortality Study
http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/imbi/team?showEmployee=wolke
Arthur Allignol, collaborator on Famous Musicians Mortality Study
http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/imbi/team?showEmployee=arthur
Wikipedia: List of 1970s UK albums chart number ones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_albums_from_the_1970s_%28UK%29
Data file types
This collection includes a comma-separated files (.csv) and a data file for the R software (RData file).
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Copyright
© M. Wolkewitz, A. Allignol, N. Graves and A. Barnett, 2011
Dates of data collection
From 1956-01-01 to 2007-12-31
Connections
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Contacts
Name: Associate Professor Adrian Barnett
Email: a.barnett@qut.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 3138 6010
Fax: +61 7 3138 6030
Other
Date record created:
2012-03-09
Date record modified:
2019-08-29T14:57:32
Record status:
Published - Open Access