age_pyramids.hist: World Age Pyramids Histogram-Valued Dataset (2014)

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World Age Pyramids Histogram-Valued Dataset (2014)

Description

Histogram-valued dataset of 229 countries with 3 population age pyramid histograms (both sexes, male, female). Each histogram has 21 age bins representing the distribution of the population across age groups.

Usage

data(age_pyramids.hist)

Format

A data frame with 229 observations (countries) and 3 histogram-valued variables:

• Both.Sexes.Population: Histogram of total population by age group.

• Male.Population: Histogram of male population by age group.

• Female.Population: Histogram of female population by age group.

Row names are country names (e.g., WORLD, Afghanistan, Albania).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	229
Variables (p)	3
Subject area	Demographics
Symbolic format	Histogram
Analytical tasks	Clustering, Descriptive statistics

Source

HistDAWass R package (Age_Pyramids_2014 dataset).

References

Irpino, A. and Verde, R. (2015). Basic statistics for distributional symbolic variables: A new metric-based approach. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 9(2), 143–175.

Original data from the HistDAWass R package (Age_Pyramids_2014).

Examples

data(age_pyramids.hist)

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