ex1716: Insurance
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Insurance
Description
In the 1970's the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated charges
that insurance companies were attempting to redefine Chicago
“neighborhoods” in order to cancel existing homeowner insurance
policies or refuse to issue new ones. Dataset has data on homeowner
and residential fire insurance policy issuances from 47 zip codes in
the Chicago area.
Usage
ex1716
Format
A data frame with 47 observations on the following 8 variables.
- ZIP
last 2 digits of zip code
- Fire
fires per 1000 housing units
- Theft
thefts per 1000 population
- Age
percentage of housing units built prior to 1940
- Income
median family income
- Race
percentage minority
- Vol
number of new policies per 100 housing units
- Invol
number of FAIR plan policies and renewals per
100 housing units
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
References
Andrews, D.F. and Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A Collection of
Problems from many Fields for the Student and Research Worker,
Springer-Verlag.
Examples
str(ex1716)
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Insurance
Description
In the 1970's the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated charges that insurance companies were attempting to redefine Chicago “neighborhoods” in order to cancel existing homeowner insurance policies or refuse to issue new ones. Dataset has data on homeowner and residential fire insurance policy issuances from 47 zip codes in the Chicago area.
Usage
ex1716Format
A data frame with 47 observations on the following 8 variables.
- ZIP
last 2 digits of zip code
- Fire
fires per 1000 housing units
- Theft
thefts per 1000 population
- Age
percentage of housing units built prior to 1940
- Income
median family income
- Race
percentage minority
- Vol
number of new policies per 100 housing units
- Invol
number of FAIR plan policies and renewals per 100 housing units
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
References
Andrews, D.F. and Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A Collection of Problems from many Fields for the Student and Research Worker, Springer-Verlag.
Examples
str(ex1716)
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