Description
In the 1970's the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated charges
that insurance companies were attempting to redefine Chicago
neighborhoods in order to cancel existing homeowner insurance
policies or refuse to issue new ones. Dataset has data on homeowner
and residential fire insurance policy issuances from 47 zip codes in
the Chicago area.source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.References
Andrews, D.F. and Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A Collection of
Problems from many Fields for the Student and Research Worker,
Springer-Verlag.