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IMR: Changes in Infant mortality over last century across countries

Description

Infant mortality is an important indicator of health status of a country. It is of interest to see how different countries have progressed in this aspect over last century, in particular if the relative ranks of countries remain roughly the same.

Usage

data(IMR)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 8 observations on the following 16 variables.
Country
Name of the Country
IMR_1900
IMR (per 1000 live births) in 1900
IMR_1950
IMR (per 1000 live births) in 1950
IMR_1985
IMR (per 1000 live births) in 1985
IMR_1993
IMR (per 1000 live births) in 1993

Source

http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/hpg/nvjoshi/statspunedatabook/databook.html

Details

Experiment with comparison of trend and rank correlation for the data under consideration.