ex1714 {Sleuth2} | R Documentation |
Insurance
Description
In the 1970's the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated charges that insurance companies were attempting to redefine Chicago “neighborhoods” in order to cancel existing homeowner insurance policies or refuse to issue new ones. Dataset has data on homeowner and residential fire insurance policy issuances from 47 zip codes in the Chicago area.
Usage
ex1714
Format
A data frame with 47 observations on the following 8 variables.
Zip
last 2 digits of zip code
Fire
fires per 1000 housing units
Theft
thefts per 1000 population
Age
percentage of housing units built prior to 1940
Income
median family income
Race
percentage minority
Vol
number of new policies per 100 housing units
Invol
number of FAIR plan policies and renewals per 100 housing units
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.
References
Andrews, D.F. and Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A Collection of Problems from many Fields for the Student and Research Worker, Springer-Verlag.
Examples
str(ex1714)