datasets (version 3.4.3)

USPersonalExpenditure: Personal Expenditure Data

Description

This data set consists of United States personal expenditures (in billions of dollars) in the categories; food and tobacco, household operation, medical and health, personal care, and private education for the years 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and 1960.

Usage

USPersonalExpenditure

Format

A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.

References

Tukey, J. W. (1977) Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley.

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
require(stats) # for medpolish
USPersonalExpenditure
medpolish(log10(USPersonalExpenditure))
# }