Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Life Expectancy

Keywords:

life expectancy

Categories:

health;
regression

Description:

The average life expectancy of 40 countries is given, together with the average number of people per physician and average number of people per TV.

There are 40 observations and five variables, plus the names of the countries.

Variables:

LifeExp	The life expectancy in years
People.per.TV	The average number of people per TV
People.per.Dr	The average number of people per physician
LifeExp.Male	The male life expectancy in years
LifeExp.Female	The female life expectancy in years

Data Quality:

There are two missing values. The average number of people per TV is not given for Tanzania and Zaire.

Source:

Rossman, A. J. (1994). `Televisions, physicians and life expectancy' in Journal of Statistics Education, 2(2). Published on the internet.

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