medExpenses {DAAG}

Family Medical Expenses

Description

The medExpenses data frame contains average weekly medical expenses including drugs for 33 families randomly sampled from a community of 600 families which contained 2700 individuals. These data were collected in the 1970's at an unknown location.

Usage

medExpenses

Format

familysize

number of individuals in a family

expenses

average weekly cost for medical expenses per family member

Examples

with(medExpenses, weighted.mean(expenses, familysize))