R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Heating

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Heating data set which pertains to Heating System Choice in California Houses . The Heating data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Heating data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Heating"). This will load the data into a variable called Heating. If R says the Heating 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 Heating R data set. The size of this file is about 160,370 bytes.

Heating System Choice in California Houses

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 900

observation : households

country : California

Usage

data(Heating)

Format

A dataframe containing :

idcase: id
depvar: heating system, one of gc (gas central), gr (gas room), ec (electric central), er (electric room), hp (heat pump)
ic.z: installation cost for heating system z (defined for the 5 heating systems)
oc.z: annual operating cost for heating system z (defined for the 5 heating systems)
pb.z: ratio oc.z/ic.z
income: annual income of the household
agehed: age of the household head
rooms: numbers of rooms in the house

References

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

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