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<h2>Personal Expenditure Data</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>This data set consists of United States personal expenditures (in
billions of dollars) in the categories; food and tobacco, household
operation, medical and health, personal care, and private education
for the years 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955 and 1960.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>USPersonalExpenditure</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A matrix with 5 rows and 5 columns.</p>


<h3>Source</h3>

<p>The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1962, page 756.</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Tukey, J. W. (1977)
<EM>Exploratory Data Analysis</EM>.
Addison-Wesley.
</p>
<p>McNeil, D. R. (1977)
<EM>Interactive Data Analysis</EM>.
Wiley.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
require(stats) # for medpolish
USPersonalExpenditure
medpolish(log10(USPersonalExpenditure))
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