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engel: Engel's Law - Engel Food Expenditures Data from the quantreg package for R

Description

Data on income and food expenditure for 235 working class households in 1857 Belgium.

Arguments

income
Annual household income (Belgian francs)
foodexp
Annual household food expenditure (Belgian francs)

Format

A dataset containing 235 observations on 2 variables

Source

This dataset was used in Koenker and Bassett (1982) and obtained from the quantreg package for R. Citations: Koenker, R. and Bassett, G (1982) Robust Tests of Heteroscedasticity based on Regression Quantiles; Econometrica 50, 43-61. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quantreg