fuel: Fuel Consumption

In jdmR-packages/czerlinski1999: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

Description

ADD FUEL CONSUMPTION DESCRIPTION

Usage

fuel

Format

A data frame with 48 observations (rows) and 9 variables (columns). Each row is a state.

state

A character column with the 2 letter state abbreviation

pop

A integer column with the 1971 population in thousands

tax

A numeric column with the 1972 motor fuel tax rate in cents/gallon

lic_n

A integer column with the 1971 number of licensed drivers in thousands

income

A numeric column with the 1972 per capita income in thousands of dollars

road

A numeric column with the 1971 miles of federal-aid primary highways in thousands

fuel_n

A integer column with the 1972 fuel consumption in millions of gallons

lic_pc

A numeric column with the percent of the population with a driver's license, calculated from 100*(lic_n/pop)

fuel_pc

A integer column with the fuel consumption in gallons per capita, calculated from 1000*(fuel_n/pop)

Source

The data were collected by Christopher Bingham for the American Almanac for 1974, except for fuel consumption, which was given in the 1974 World Almanac. The dataset was reported in Weisberg (1985). This data was pulled from StatLib (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/alr) under the name alr35. Column descriptions from Weisberg (1985).

Weisberg, Sanford. (1985). Applied linear regression. New York: Wiley.

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