R: Personal Expenditure Data

USPersonalExpenditure {datasets} | R Documentation

## Personal Expenditure Data

### Description

This data set consists of United States personal expenditures (in billions of dollars) in the categories; food and tobacco, household operation, medical and health, personal care, and private education for the years 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and 1960.

### Usage

    USPersonalExpenditure

### Format

A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.

### Source

The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1962, page 756.

### References

Tukey, J. W. (1977) Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley.

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.

### Examples

    require(stats) # for medpolish
    USPersonalExpenditure
    medpolish(log10(USPersonalExpenditure))

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