ex1122: Deforestation and Debt

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

Description

It has been theorized that developing countries cut down their forests to pay off foreign debt. Data are debt, deforestation, and population from 11 Latin American nations.

Usage

ex1122

Format

A data frame with 11 observations on the following 4 variables.

Country

a character vector indicating the country

Debt

debt (millions of dollars)

Deforest

deforestation (thousands of ha)

Pop

population (thousands of people)

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Gullison, R.R. and Losos, E.C. (1992). The Role of Foreign Debt in Deforestation in Latin America, Conservation Biology 7(1): 140–7.

Examples

str(ex1122)

Example output

'data.frame':	11 obs. of  4 variables:
 $ Country : chr  "Brazil" "Mexico" "Ecuador" "Colombia" ...
 $ Debt    : num  86396 79613 6990 10101 24870 ...
 $ Deforest: num  12150 2680 1557 1500 1430 ...
 $ Pop     : num  128425 74194 8750 27254 16170 ...

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