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lifeExpGdp: life expectancy and GDP (2008) for EU-countries

Description

Social-economic data for compositional regression.

Arguments

Format

A data set on 27 compositions on 9 variables.

Author

conversion to R by Karel Hron and Matthias Templ [email protected]

Details

country

country

agriculture

GDP on agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing (ISIC A-B, x1)

manufacture

GDP on mining, manufacturing, utilities (ISIC C-E, x2)

construction

GDP on construction (ISIC F, x3)

wholesales

GDP on wholesale, retail trade, restaurants and hotels (ISIC G-H, x4)

transport

GDP on transport, storage and communication (ISIC I, x5)

other

GDP on other activities (ISIC J-P, x6)

lifeExpMen

life expectancy for men and women

lifeExpWomen

life expectancy for men and women

References

K. Hron, P. Filzmoser, K. Thompson (2012). Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables. Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 2012.

Examples

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data(lifeExpGdp)
str(lifeExpGdp)

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