mdatools (version 0.5.3)

people: People data

Description

Dataset for exploratory analysis with 32 objects (male and female persons) and 12 variables.

Usage

data(people)

format

a matrix with 32 observations (persons) and 12 variables. rlll{ [, 1] Height in cm. [, 2] Weight in kg. [, 3] Hair length (-1 for short, +1 for long). [, 4] Shoe size (EU standard). [, 5] Age, years. [, 6] Income, euro per year. [, 7] Beer consumption, liters per year. [, 8] Wine consumption, liters per year. [, 9] Sex (-1 for male, +1 for female). [, 10] Swimming ability (index, based on 500 m swimming time). [, 11] Region (-1 for Scandinavia, +1 for Mediterranean. [, 12] IQ (European standardized test). }

source

1. K. Esbensen. Multivariate Data Analysis in Practice. Camo, 2002.

Details

The data was taken from the book [1] and is in fact a small subset of a pan-European demographic survey. It includes information about 32 persons, 16 represent northern Europe (Scandinavians) and 16 are from the Mediterranean regions. In both groups there are 8 male and 8 female persons. The data includes both quantitative and qualitative variables and is particularly useful for benchmarking exploratory data analysis methods.