Monthly payments per person for families in the AFDC federal program

Data used in Exercises 1.91 and 3.68

Aid

Format

A data frame/tibble with 51 observations on two variables

state

a factor with levels Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Colunbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missour, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming

payment

average monthly payment per person in a family

Source

US Department of Health and Human Services, 1993.

References

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

Examples

hist(Aid$payment, xlab = "payment", main = 
"Average monthly payment per person in a family", 
col = "lightblue")

boxplot(Aid$payment, col = "lightblue")

dotplot(state ~ payment, data = Aid)