finance.int: Finance Sector Interval Dataset

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Finance Sector Interval Dataset

Description

Interval-valued data for 14 business sectors described by job-related financial variables (job cost codes, activity codes, budgets). Used for PCA demonstrations.

Usage

data(finance.int)

Format

A symbolic data frame (symbolic_tbl) with 14 observations and 7 variables:

• Sector: Business sector name (character).

• Job_Cost: Job cost range (currency units, interval).

• Job_Code: Job code range (interval).

• Activity_Code: Activity code range (interval).

• Monthly_Cost: Monthly cost range (currency units, interval).

• Annual_Budget: Annual budget range (currency units, interval).

• n: Number of entities in the sector (numeric).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	14
Variables (p)	7
Subject area	Finance
Symbolic format	Interval
Analytical tasks	PCA

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis. Wiley. Table 5.2.

Examples

data(finance.int)

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