engel: Engel's Law - Engel Food Expenditures Data from the quantreg...

Description Arguments Format Source

Description

Data on income and food expenditure for 235 working class households in 1857 Belgium.

Arguments

income

Annual household income (Belgian francs)

foodexp

Annual household food expenditure (Belgian francs)

Format

A dataset containing 235 observations on 2 variables

Source

This dataset was used in Koenker and Bassett (1982) and obtained from the quantreg package for R. Citations: Koenker, R. and Bassett, G (1982) Robust Tests of Heteroscedasticity based on Regression Quantiles; Econometrica 50, 43-61. http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quantreg


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