USPersonalExpenditure        package: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))

