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ex0914

Pace of Life and Heart Disease

Description

In four regions of the US (Northeast, Midwest, South and West), in three different sized metropolitan regions, researchers measured indicators of pace of life.

Usage

ex0914

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 4 variables.

Bank: bank clerk speed
Walk: pedestrian walking speed
Talk: postal clerk talking speed
Heart: age adjusted death rate due to heart disease

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

References

Levine, R.V. (1990). The Pace of Life, American Scientist 78: 450–459.

Examples

str(ex0914)

Sleuth2

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

v2.0-5

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Original by F.L. Ramsey and D.W. Schafer; modifications by Daniel W. Schafer, Jeannie Sifneos and Berwin A. Turlach; vignettes contributed by Nicholas Horton, Kate Aloisio and Ruobing Zhang, with corrections by Randall Pruim

Initial release

2019-01-24