cable

The penetration of cable television in 283 market areas in the USA.

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Data used as examples in the current two books on Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape introduced by Rigby and Stasinopoulos (2005), <doi:10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.00510.x>.

Mikis Stasinopoulos

gamlss.data

Data for Generalised Additive Models for Location Scale and
Shape

cable function

A data frame with 283 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>pen5</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of households having cable TV in market area</dd> <dt><code>lin</code></dt>
<dd>log median income</dd> <dt><code>child</code></dt>
<dd>percentage of households with children</dd> <dt><code>ltv</code></dt>
<dd>number of local TV stations</dd> <dt><code>dis</code></dt>
<dd>consumer satisfaction index with values 0 and 1</dd> <dt><code>agehe</code></dt>
<dd>age of cable TV headend</dd> 
</dl>

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The cable data set — cable

A data frame with 283 observations on the following 6 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>pen5</code></dt>
<dd>proportion of households having cable TV in market area</dd>

 <dt><code>lin</code></dt>
<dd>log median income</dd>

 <dt><code>child</code></dt>
<dd>percentage of households with children</dd>

 <dt><code>ltv</code></dt>
<dd>number of local TV stations</dd>

 <dt><code>dis</code></dt>
<dd>consumer satisfaction index with values 0 and 1</dd>

 <dt><code>agehe</code></dt>
<dd>age of cable TV headend</dd>

 
</dl>

cable: The cable data set

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