happy

Data from the 2019 World Happiness Report, an annual publication of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Data sets used in the book Marra and Radice (2025, ISBN:9781032973111) "Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R", for illustrating the fitting of various joint (and univariate) regression models, with several types of covariate effects, in the presence of equations' errors association.

Giampiero Marra

GJRM.data

Data Sets for Copula Additive Distributional Regression Using R

happy function

<code>happy</code> is a 155 row data frame with the following columns:
<dl><dt>country</dt>
<dd>Country.</dd><dt>gdp</dt>
<dd>Gross domestic product per capita.</dd><dt>support</dt>
<dd>Indicator of social support (or having someone to count on in times of trouble) calculated at national level.</dd><dt>hle</dt>
<dd>Indicator of healthy life expectancies at birth.</dd><dt>freedom</dt>
<dd>Freedom to make life choices is the national average of responses to the question: Are you satisfied or dissatisfied 
with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?</dd><dt>generosity</dt>
<dd>Generosity is the residual of regressing national average of response to the 
question: Have you donated money to a charity in the past month? on GDP per capita.</dd><dt>corruption</dt>
<dd>Corruption Perception: The measure is the national average of the survey responses to two 
questions in the: Is corruption widespread throughout
the government or not? and Is corruption widespread within businesses or
not? The overall perception is just the average of the two 0-or-1 responses.</dd><dt>score</dt>
<dd>Subjective well-being. 1 low, 2 medium low, 3 medium, 4 high.</dd>
</dl>

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World Happiness Report Data — happy

<code>happy</code> is a 155 row data frame with the following columns:
<dl>

<dt>country</dt>
<dd>Country.</dd>

<dt>gdp</dt>
<dd>Gross domestic product per capita.</dd>

<dt>support</dt>
<dd>Indicator of social support (or having someone to count on in times of trouble) calculated at national level.</dd>

<dt>hle</dt>
<dd>Indicator of healthy life expectancies at birth.</dd>

<dt>freedom</dt>
<dd>Freedom to make life choices is the national average of responses to the question: Are you satisfied or dissatisfied 
with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?</dd>

<dt>generosity</dt>
<dd>Generosity is the residual of regressing national average of response to the 
question: Have you donated money to a charity in the past month? on GDP per capita.</dd>

<dt>corruption</dt>
<dd>Corruption Perception: The measure is the national average of the survey responses to two 
questions in the: Is corruption widespread throughout
the government or not? and Is corruption widespread within businesses or
not? The overall perception is just the average of the two 0-or-1 responses.</dd>

<dt>score</dt>
<dd>Subjective well-being. 1 low, 2 medium low, 3 medium, 4 high.</dd>




</dl>

happy: World Happiness Report Data

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