hospital.hist: Hospital Costs Histogram-Valued Dataset

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Hospital Costs Histogram-Valued Dataset

Description

Histogram-valued cost distributions for 15 hospitals. Each observation is a hospital with a 10-bin histogram of patient costs.

Usage

data(hospital.hist)

Format

A data frame with 15 observations and 1 histogram-valued variable:

• cost: Histogram-valued cost distribution (currency units).

Row names are H1 through H15.

Metadata

Sample size (n)	15
Variables (p)	1
Subject area	Healthcare
Symbolic format	Histogram
Analytical tasks	Descriptive statistics, Clustering

Source

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006), Table 3.12.

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis: Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining. Wiley, Chichester. Table 3.12.

Examples

data(hospital.hist)

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