quality.dat {Rfwdmv}R Documentation

Quality of life data

Description

Indices of the quality of life in the provinces of Italy.

Usage

data(quality.dat)

Format

A data frame with 103 observations on the following 6 variables.

y1
a numeric vector, the average amount of bank deposits per inhabitant.
y2
a numeric vector, the number of robberies per 100,000 inhabitants.
y3
a numeric vector, the number of housebreakings per 100,000 inhabitants.
y4
a numeric vector, the number of suicides, committed or attempted, per 100,000 inhabitants.
y5
a numeric vector, the number of gyms per 100,000 inhabitants.
y6
a numeric vector, the average expenditure on theatre and concerts per inhabitant.

Details

The data are not provided on the original variables listed above, but rather on a scaled version of them. Scaling is performed by dividing each response value by the maximum reading for that response.

Source

These data have been published on the Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 ore 2001.

References

Atkinson, Riani and Cerioli (2004), p. 573-575; http://www.riani.it/arc.

Examples

data(quality.dat)

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