cable {gamlss.data}

The cable data set

Description

The penetration of cable television in 283 market areas in the USA.

Usage

data("cable")

Format

A data frame with 283 observations on the following 6 variables.

pen5

proportion of households having cable TV in market area

lin

log median income

child

percentage of households with children

ltv

number of local TV stations

dis

consumer satisfaction index with values 0 and 1

agehe

age of cable TV headend

Details

The cable data set concerns the penetration of cable television in 283 market areas in the USA. The data were collected in a mailed survey questionnaire in 1992 Kieschnick and McCullough (2003). The aim of the study was to explain cable television uptake (the proportion pen5) as a function of area demographics.

Source

Kieschnick and McCullough (2003)

References

Kieschnick, R. and McCullough, B. D. (2003) Regression analysis of variates observed on (0, 1): percentages, proportions and fractions, Statistical Modelling, 3, Vol 3, pp 193-213, Sage Publications Sage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA.

Examples

data(cable)