us.food.cost.nutrients.1959 {cluster.datasets}

Hartigan (1975) Cost and Nutrient Contribution for Selected Foods

Description

The table contains the cost and nutrient content, in percent daily allowance, of various foods reported in 1959. This is Table 8.5 in Cja[ter 8 of Hartigan (1975) on page 160.

Usage

data(us.food.cost.nutrients.1959)

Format

A data frame with 10 observations on the following 8 variables.

food

a character vector for the food name

cost

a numeric vector for the cost of serving in U.S. cents

size

a character vector for for the portion size

protein

a numeric vector for % recommended daily allowance of protein

iron

a numeric vector for for % recommended daily allowance of iron

thiamine

a numeric vector for for % recommended daily allowance of thiamine

riboflavin

a numeric vector for for % recommended daily allowance of riboflavin

niacin

a numeric vector for for % recommended daily allowance of niacin

Details

The table is used to construst trees and distances as described in Hartigan (1975).

Source

Yearbook of Agriculture (1959).

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(us.food.cost.nutrients.1959)