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Life Expectancy

For each of the forty largest countries in the world (according to 1990 population figures), data are given for the country's life expectancy at birth, number of people per television set, and number of people per physician.

Variables.

  1. Country: Country
  2. Expectancy: Life expectancy
  3. PerTV: People per television
  4. PerDoc: People per physician
  5. Log.PerTV: The log transformation of people per television
  6. Log.PerDoc: The log transformation of people per physician

Source. Rossman, Allan J. (1994). “Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy”, Journal of Statistics Education Vol.2 No.2.


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