USPersonalExpenditure        package:datasets        R Documentation

_P_e_r_s_o_n_a_l _E_x_p_e_n_d_i_t_u_r_e _D_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set consists of United States personal expenditures (in
     billions of dollars) in the categories; food and tobacco,
     household operation, medical and health, personal care, and
     private education for the years 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and 1960.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     USPersonalExpenditure

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1962, page 756.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Tukey, J. W. (1977) _Exploratory Data Analysis_. Addison-Wesley.

     McNeil, D. R. (1977) _Interactive Data Analysis_. Wiley.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     require(stats) # for medpolish
     USPersonalExpenditure
     medpolish(log10(USPersonalExpenditure))