birth.death.rates.1966 {cluster.datasets}R Documentation

Hartigan (1975) Birth and Death Rates Per 1000

Description

A table with birth and death rates per 1000 persons for selected countries. This is Table 11.6 in Chapter 11 of Hartigan (1975) on page 197.

Usage

data(birth.death.rates.1966)

Format

A data frame with 70 observations on the following 3 variables.

country

a character vector for the country name

birth

a numeric vector for the birth rates per 1000 persons

death

a numeric vector for the death rates per 1000 persons

Details

Hartigan recommends that spircal search algorithm be applied to this data set.

Source

Reader's Digest Almanac (1966)

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(birth.death.rates.1966)

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