Statistics of 1979 automobile models
Statistics for 74 automobiles in the 1979 model year as sold in the US.
auto
A data frame with 74 observations on the following 14 variables.
Make and model of car.
a factor with levels A,E,J
Price in dollars.
Miles per gallon.
Repair record for 1978 on 1 (worst) to 5 (best) scale.
Repair record for 1978 on 1 to 5 scale.
Headroom in inches.
Rear seat clearance in inches.
Trunk volume in cubic feet.
Weight in pounds.
Length in inches.
Turning diameter in feet.
Engine displacement in cubic inches.
Gear ratio for high gear.
The data is from various sources, primarily Consumer Reports, April, 1979, and the United States government EPA statistics on fuel consumption.
This data frame was created from http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/sssg/data/auto.sas
Originally published in Chambers, Cleveland, Kleiner, and Tukey, Graphical Methods for Data Analysis, 1983, pages 352-355.
corrgram(auto[, -c(1:2)])
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