life

The data represent life expectancies and per capita income in 1974 dollars for
 101 countries in the early 1970's. The data were originally published in the
 New York Times (September, 28, 1975, p. E-3), they also appear on Leinhardt and
 Wasserman (1979) and Regression Analysis by Ashish Sen and Muni Srivastava.

datasets

Functions to perform robust estimation considering heavy-tailed distributions.
Currently, the package includes routines for linear regression, linear mixed-effect
models, Grubbs' model, multivariate location and scatter estimation, multivariate
regression, penalized splines, random variate generation and some support functions.

Felipe Osorio

heavy

Robust Estimation Using Heavy-Tailed Distributions

life function

A data frame with 101 observations on the following 3 variables.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>Country</dt><dd>character string, containing names of the countries.</dd>
 <dt>life</dt><dd>life expectancy, in years for 1974.</dd>
 <dt>income</dt><dd>income per capita in 1974 US dollars.</dd>
 </dl>

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Data on per-capita income and life expectancy — life

A data frame with 101 observations on the following 3 variables.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>Country</dt><dd>character string, containing names of the countries.</dd>
 <dt>life</dt><dd>life expectancy, in years for 1974.</dd>
 <dt>income</dt><dd>income per capita in 1974 US dollars.</dd>
 </dl>

life: Data on per-capita income and life expectancy

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