stigler: The Diet Problem: "Nutritive Values of Common Foods per...

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Description

A dataset of 10 rows and 14 columns describing 1944 prices and nutritional data for 14 food commodities. Obtained from George Stigler's 1945 paper on "The Cost of Subsistence".

Arguments

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

Format

A data frame with 10 rows and 14 columns

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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