The variables are:

death: the outcome variable, coded 1 if the person received the death penalty and 0 otherwise

blackd: coded 1 if the defendant was black and 0 otherwise

whitvic: coded 1 if the victim of the crime was white and 0

otherwise serious: a score, between 1 and 15, indicating the seriousness of the crime

culp: integer values between 1 and 5 (5 denotes high culpability), based on a number of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. The aim of the analysis is to determine whether race (in as much as it is crudely captured in the data) plays a role in assigning the death penalty, after adjusting for the seriousness and culpability associated with the crime. a) Fit a model which contains the race of both the defendant and the victim, serious, and culp. Treat both serious and culp as continuous variables. Answer the primary research question: does race play a role in sentencing. Justify your answer.

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