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Description

A vector describing 1943 dietary requirements for a "moderately active" man of 154 pounds. Obtained from Table 1 of George Stigler's 1945 paper on "The Cost of Subsistence".

Arguments

Calories	Calories (in kilocalories)
Protein	Protein (in grams)
Calcium	Calcium (in grams)
Iron	Iron (in milligrams)
Vitamin.A	Vitamin A (in 1000 Interntional Units)
Thiamine	Thiamine (in milligrams)
Riboflavin	Riboflavin (in milligrams)
Niacin	Niacin (in milligrams)
Ascorbic.Acid	Ascorbin Acid (in milligrams)

Format

A vector of length 9

Source

George J. Stigler, "The Cost of Subsistence", Journal of Farm Economics, Vol. 27, No. 2 (May, 1945), pp. 303-314. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1231810

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