health_insurance2.modal: Health Insurance Modal-Valued Dataset

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Health Insurance Modal-Valued Dataset

Description

Modal-valued symbolic version of the health insurance dataset, aggregated into 6 disease-type-by-gender groups. See health_insurance.mix for the underlying microdata.

Usage

data(health_insurance2.modal)

Format

A symbolic data frame (symbolic_tbl) with 6 observations and 6 variables:

• Type Gender: Disease type and gender label (character).

• Age: Modal distribution over age bins.

• Marital Status: Modal distribution over marital status (M, S).

• Parents Alive: Modal distribution over number of parents alive (0, 1, 2).

• Weight: Modal distribution over weight bins (pounds).

• Cholesterol: Modal distribution over cholesterol bins (mg/dL).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	6
Variables (p)	6
Subject area	Medical
Symbolic format	Modal
Analytical tasks	Clustering, Descriptive statistics

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis. Wiley. Table 2.2b.

Examples

data(health_insurance2.modal)

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