state.x77: state.x77: Information on the States in USA

In thoree/stat340: Data and functions for BIAS at NMBU

state.x77: Information on the States in USA

Description

This data set contains various statistics for all the states in USA from the 20th century (1931 - 1976).

Usage

state.x77

Format

A numeric matrix with 50 row and 8 columns.

	Column name	Description	Values
[,1]	Population	Estimated population size	(365 - 21198)
[,2]	Income	Per capita income	(3098 - 6315)
[,3]	Illiteracy	Percentage of illiteracy in the population	(0.5 - 2.8)
[,4]	Life Exp	Life expectancy in years	(67.96 - 73.60)
[,5]	Murder	Murder rate per 100 000	(1.4 - 15.1)
[,6]	HS Grad	Percent high-school graduates	(37.8 - 67.3)
[,7]	Frost	Days with temperature below freezing	(0 - 188)
[,8]	Area	Land area in mi^2	(1049 - 566432)

Details

Additional information about the columns:

• The Population estimate is from July 1, 1975.

• The Income is the measurement of the amount of money earned per person in each state in 1974.

• The percentage of Illiteracy (inability to read or write) in the population is from 1970.

• The data in Life Exp is from 1969 - 71.

• Murder includes both murder and non-negligent manslaughter, and the data is from 1976.

• The data in HS Grad is from 1970.

• Frost is the mean number of days with minimum temperature below freezing in a capital or a large city, and the data is from 1931 – 1960.

• The Area is measured in square miles.

Examples

# Row and column names
rownames(state.x77)
colnames(state.x77)

# A short summary of the variables
summary(state.x77)

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