This data, which comes standard in Stata, originally came from the April 1979 issue of Consumer Reports and from the United States Government EPA statistics on fuel consumption; they were compiled and published by Chambers et al. (1983).
autoA data frame with 74 rows and 12 variables
Make and Model
Price
Mileage (mpg)
Repair Record 1978
Headroom (in.)
Trunk space (cu. ft.)
Weight (lbs.)
Length (in.)
Turn Circle (ft.)
Displacement (cu. in.)
Gear Ratio
Car type; 0 = Domestic, 1 = Foreign
This data is used in the Probability and Regression Review chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape.
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.