Elderly: Percent of the population over the age of 65

In BSDA: Basic Statistics and Data Analysis

Percent of the population over the age of 65

Description

Data for Exercise 1.92 and 2.61

Usage

Elderly

Format

A data frame/tibble with 51 observations on three variables

state

a factor with levels Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colunbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missour, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming

percent1985

percent of the population over the age of 65 in 1985

percent1998

percent of the population over the age of 65 in 1998

Source

U.S. Census Bureau Internet site, February 2000.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

with(data = Elderly, 
stripchart(x = list(percent1998, percent1985), method = "stack", pch = 19,
           col = c("red","blue"), group.names = c("1998", "1985"))
           )
with(data = Elderly, cor(percent1998, percent1985))
## Not run: 
library(ggplot2)
ggplot2::ggplot(data = Elderly, aes(x = percent1985, y = percent1998)) +
           geom_point() + 
           theme_bw()

## End(Not run)

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