state.pop: U.S. state population 1790-1990

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U.S. state population 1790-1990

Description

U.S. state population 1790-1990

Details

state.pop is a matrix containing the population of each U.S. state, including the District of Columbia, from 1790 to 1990 in ten-year increments. The rows are the years "1790" to "1990" and the columns are state names.

References

The data was obtained from http://merrill.olm.net/pdocs/feas/pop/pop1790_1990/pii.txt and edited into R format.

See Also

state.area, state.name, state

Examples

  dotchart(sort(log(state.pop["1990",])))

  # distribution of growth rates over time
  rates <- diff(log(state.pop))
  boxplot(as.data.frame(t(rates)))

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