R Dataset / Package Ecdat / HC

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the HC data set which pertains to Heating and Cooling System Choice in Newly Built Houses in California . The HC data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the HC data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("HC"). This will load the data into a variable called HC. If R says the HC data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the HC R data set. The size of this file is about 19,326 bytes.

Heating and Cooling System Choice in Newly Built Houses in California

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 250

observation : households

country : California

Usage

data(HC)

Format

A dataframe containing :

depvar: heating system, one of gcc (gas central heat with cooling), ecc (electric central resistence heat with cooling), erc (electric room resistence heat with cooling), hpc (electric heat pump which provides cooling also), gc (gas central heat without cooling, ec (electric central resistence heat without cooling), er (electric room resistence heat without cooling)
ich.z: installation cost of the heating portion of the system
icca: installation cost for cooling
och.z: operating cost for the heating portion of the system
occa: operating cost for cooling
income: annual income of the household

References

Kenneth Train's home page : http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~train/.

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