household_characteristics.distr: Household Characteristics Distribution-Valued Dataset

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Household Characteristics Distribution-Valued Dataset

Description

Distribution-valued dataset of 12 counties with 3 categorical probability distribution variables describing household fuel type, number of rooms, and household income brackets.

Usage

data(household_characteristics.distr)

Format

A data frame with 12 observations (counties) and 3 distribution-valued variables:

• fuel_type: Distribution over fuel types (gas, electric, oil, wood, none).

• rooms: Distribution over room counts ({1,2}, {3,4,5}, {>=6}).

• household_income: Distribution over income brackets (<10, [10,25), [25,50), [50,75), [75,100), [100,150), [150,200), >=200).

Row names are County_1 through County_12.

Metadata

Sample size (n)	12
Variables (p)	3
Subject area	Socioeconomics
Symbolic format	Distribution
Analytical tasks	Clustering, Descriptive statistics

Source

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2020), Table 6-1.

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2020). Clustering Methodology for Symbolic Data. Wiley, Chichester. Table 6-1.

Examples

data(household_characteristics.distr)

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