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Food prices

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Keywords:
Categories:
regression;
finance
Description:
The food prices of ten different types of food bought in a particular area of the UK in 1987 and exactly one year later in 1988.
Variables:
Food The type of food (see Hand et al. dataset 62 for fuller descriptions)
Price.1987 The price in pence in 1987
Price.1988 The price in pence in 1988
Data Quality:
There are no missing values.
Source:
Hand et al. dataset 62.
Notes:
Can be used to demonstrate simple regression, or summarising bivariate data. There may be two outliers.
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