fuel2001 {alr3} | R Documentation |
Data on motor fuel consumption and related variables, for the year 2001. The unit is a state in the United States or the District of Columbia. Data are for 2001, unless noted.
This data frame contains the following columns. Row labels are the two-digit US Postal abbreviations for the US states.
Number of Licensed drivers in the state
Gasoline sold for road use (1000s of gal.)
Per capita personal income (year 2000)
Miles of Federal-aid highway miles in the state
Estimated miles driven per capita
Population age 16 and over
Gasoline state tax rate, cents per gallon
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/hs01/index.htm
Weisberg, S. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, third edition. New York: Wiley.
head(fuel2001) # Most of the examples in ALR3 that use these data first # transform several of the columns fuel2001 <- transform(fuel2001, Dlic=1000 * Drivers/Pop, Fuel=1000 * FuelC/Pop, Income=Income/1000) pairs(Fuel~Tax + Dlic + Income + log2(Miles), data=fuel2001)