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