R330 (version 1.0)

wine.df: Bordeaux Wine data

Description

A data set which attempted to assess the quality of various Bordeaux vintages based upon certain variables

Usage

data(wine.df)

Format

A data frame with 27 observations on the following 5 variables:

year

year (1952-1980)

price

Price (in 1980 US dollars, converted to an index with 1961=100)

temp

average temp during the growing season (degrees Celcius)

h.rain

total rainfall during harvest period (mm)

w.rain

total rainfall over preceding winter (mm)

Source

The data are available at http://www.liquidasset.com/winedata.html

References

An article by Orly Ashenfelder is at http://www.liquidasset.com/orley.htm See also Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore, and Robert Lalonde, Bordeaux wine vintage quality and the weather. Chance Magazine, Fall 1995, pp.7-14

Examples

data(wine.df)
boxcoxplot(price~temp+h.rain+w.rain+year, data=wine.df)