openintro (version 1.3)

MLB: Salary data for Major League Baseball (2010)

Description

Salary data for Major League Baseball players in the year 2010.

Usage

data(MLB)

source

Collected from the following page (and its linked pages) on February 23rd, 2011:

http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/baseball/mlb/salaries/team

Examples

data(MLB)

#=====> Basic Histogram <=====#
hist(MLB$salary/1000, main="", breaks=15, xlab="Salary (millions of dollars)", axes=FALSE, ylab="", col="#22558844")
axis(1, seq(0, 40, 10))
axis(2, c(0, 500))
axis(2, seq(100, 400, 100), rep("", 4), tcl=-0.2)

#=====> Histogram on Log Scale <=====#
hist(log(MLB$salary/1000), main="", breaks=15, xlab="log(Salary)", axes=FALSE, ylab="", col="#22558844")
axis(1) #, seq(0, 40, 10))
axis(2, seq(0, 300, 100))

#=====> Box plot of log(salary) against position <=====#
par(las=1, mar=c(4, 8, 1, 1))
boxPlot(log(MLB$salary/1000), MLB$position, horiz=TRUE, ylab="")