cluster.datasets (version 1.0-1)

birth.death.rates.1966: Hartigan (1975) Birth and Death Rates Per 1000

Description

A table with birth and death rates per 1000 persons for selected countries. This is Table 11.6 in Chapter 11 of Hartigan (1975) on page 197.

Usage

data(birth.death.rates.1966)

Format

A data frame with 70 observations on the following 3 variables.

country

a character vector for the country name

birth

a numeric vector for the birth rates per 1000 persons

death

a numeric vector for the death rates per 1000 persons

Source

Reader's Digest Almanac (1966) SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

Hartigan recommends that spircal search algorithm be applied to this data set.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(birth.death.rates.1966)