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veuvage

Example for Centring in PCA

Description

The data come from the INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economical Studies). It is an array of widower percentages in relation with the age and the socioprofessional category.

Usage

data(veuvage)

Format

veuvage is a list of 2 components.

tab: is a data frame with 37 rows (widowers) 6 columns (socio-professional categories)
age: is a vector of the ages of the 37 widowers.

Details

The columns contain the socioprofessional categories:
1- Farmers, 2- Craftsmen, 3- Executives and higher intellectual professions,
4- Intermediate Professions, 5- Others white-collar workers and 6- Manual workers.

Source

unknown

Examples

data(veuvage)
par(mfrow = c(3,2))
for (j in 1:6) plot(veuvage$age, veuvage$tab[,j],
    xlab = "age", ylab = "pourcentage de veufs",
    type = "b", main = names(veuvage$tab)[j])

ade4

Analysis of Ecological Data: Exploratory and Euclidean Methods in Environmental Sciences

v1.7-16

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Stéphane Dray <stephane.dray@univ-lyon1.fr>, Anne-Béatrice Dufour <anne-beatrice.dufour@univ-lyon1.fr>, and Jean Thioulouse <jean.thioulouse@univ-lyon1.fr>, with contributions from Thibaut Jombart, Sandrine Pavoine, Jean R. Lobry, Sébastien Ollier, Daniel Borcard, Pierre Legendre, Stéphanie Bougeard and Aurélie Siberchicot. Based on earlier work by Daniel Chessel.

Initial release