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Engel Data: Engel Data

Description

Engel food expenditure data used in Koenker and Bassett(1982). This is a regression data set consisting of 235 observations on income and expenditure on food for Belgian working class households.

Usage

data(engel)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 235 observations on 2 variables
income
annual household income in Belgian francs
foordexp
annual household food expenditure in Belgian francs

References

Koenker, R. and Bassett, G (1982) Robust Tests of Heteroscedasticity based on Regression Quantiles; Econometrica 50, 43-61.