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lifeExpGdp: life expectancy and GDP (2008) for EU-countries

Description

Social-economic data for compositional regression.

Arguments

Format

A data set on 27 compositions on 9 variables.

Author

conversion to R by Karel Hron and Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at

Details

  • country country

  • agriculture GDP on agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing (ISIC A-B, x1)

  • manufacture GDP on mining, manufacturing, utilities (ISIC C-E, x2)

  • construction GDP on construction (ISIC F, x3)

  • wholesales GDP on wholesale, retail trade, restaurants and hotels (ISIC G-H, x4)

  • transport GDP on transport, storage and communication (ISIC I, x5)

  • other GDP on other activities (ISIC J-P, x6)

  • lifeExpMen life expectancy for men and women

  • lifeExpWomen life expectancy for men and women

References

K. Hron, P. Filzmoser, K. Thompson (2012). Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables. Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 2012.

Examples

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data(lifeExpGdp)
str(lifeExpGdp)

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