bigmac

The data give average values in 1991 on several economic indicators for 45 world cities.  All prices are in US dollars, using currency conversion at the time of publication.


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Functions, methods, and data sets for fitting likelihood-based dimension reduction in regression, using principal fitted components (pfc), likelihood acquired directions (lad), covariance reducing models (core).

Kofi Adragni

Methods for likelihood-based dimension reduction in regression

bigmac function

A data frame with 45 observations on the following 10 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>BigMac</code></dt><dd>Minimum labor to buy a BigMac and fries</dd> <dt><code>Bread</code></dt><dd>Minimum labor to buy 1 kg bread</dd> <dt><code>BusFare</code></dt><dd>Lowest cost of 10k public transit</dd> <dt><code>EngSal</code></dt><dd>Electrical engineer annual salary, 1000s</dd> <dt><code>EngTax</code></dt><dd>Tax rate paid by engineer</dd> <dt><code>Service</code></dt><dd>Annual cost of 19 services</dd> <dt><code>TeachSal</code></dt><dd>Primary teacher salary, 1000s</dd> <dt><code>TeachTax</code></dt><dd>Tax rate paid by primary teacher</dd> <dt><code>VacDays</code></dt><dd>Average days vacation per year</dd> <dt><code>WorkHrs</code></dt><dd>Average hours worked per year</dd> </dl> 

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Rudolf Enz, "Prices and Earnings Around the Globe",
1991 edition, Published by the Union Bank of Switzerland.

bigmac: bigmac data

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