un86 {rrcov}R Documentation

United Nations Data - 1986

Description

This data set consists of seven socioeconomic variables observed for 73 countries.

Usage

data(un86)

Format

A data frame with 73 observations on the following 7 variables.

POP
Total population in milions
MOR
Number of infant deaths per thousand births
CAR
Number of motorized vehicles per hundred inhabitants
DR
Number of medical doctors per thousand inhabitants
GNP
Gross national product per inhabitant in thousands of US dollars
DEN
Density in inhabitants per square kilometer
TB
Trade balance, defined as total exports/(total exports + total imports)

Details

The data set is from World Statistics in Brief, Number 10, a 1986 UN publication. It was used in Daigle et al. (1992) to illustrate a robust biplot method.

Source

World Statistics in Brief, Number 10, a 1986 United Nations publication

Daigle, G. and Rivest, L. (1992) A robust biplot, The canadian Journal of Statistics, 20, pp 241–255

Examples

data(un86)
pairs(un86)

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