Description

This data set consists of seven socioeconomic variables observed for 73 countries.

Usage

Format

A data frame with 73 observations on the following 7 variables.

POP

Total population in milions

MOR

Number of infant deaths per thousand births

CAR

Number of motorized vehicles per hundred inhabitants

DR

Number of medical doctors per thousand inhabitants

GNP

Gross national product per inhabitant in thousands of US dollars

DEN

Density in inhabitants per square kilometer

TB

Trade balance, defined as total exports/(total exports + total imports)

Details

The data set is from World Statistics in Brief, Number 10, a 1986 UN publication. It was used in Daigle et al. (1992) to illustrate a robust biplot method.

Source

World Statistics in Brief, Number 10, a 1986 United Nations publication

Daigle, G. and Rivest, L. (1992) A robust biplot, The canadian Journal of Statistics, 20, pp 241–255

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