life: Data on per-capita income and life expectancy

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Description

The data represent life expectancies and per capita income in 1974 dollars for 101 countries in the early 1970's. The data were originally published in the New York Times (September, 28, 1975, p. E-3), they also appear on Leinhardt and Wasserman (1979) and Regression Analysis by Ashish Sen and Muni Srivastava.

Usage

data(life)

Format

A data frame with 101 observations on the following 3 variables.

Country

character string, containing names of the countries.

life

life expectancy, in years for 1974.

income

income per capita in 1974 US dollars.

Source

Sen, A., and Srivastava, M. (1990). Regression Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Leinhardt, S., and Vasserman, S.S. (1979). Teaching regression: An exploratory approach. The American Statistician 33, 196-203.

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