riv (version 2.0-5)

mortality: Mortality rate data

Description

The dataset contains information about the mortality rate from 60 U.S. cities using aggregate information from the year 1969/70.

Usage

data(mortality)

Format

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 8 variables.

MO70

a numeric vector of the total mortality (number of deaths per 1000 people) from 1970.

MAGE

a numeric vector of the median age of the population (in years) from 1969.

CI68

a numeric vector of the number of packs of cigarettes per year per person.

MDOC

a numeric vector of the density of medical doctors (number of medical doctors per 100,000 people).

DENS

a numeric vector of the percentage of households with more than 1.5 persons per room.

NONW

a numeric vector of the fraction of the non-white population.

EDUC

a numeric vector of the percentage of the population over age 25 having a high-school diploma.

IN69

a numeric vector of the median income from 1969.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(mortality)
# }