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.
A matrix with 5 rows and 6 columns.
Source
The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1962, page 756.
References
Tukey, J. W. (1977) Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley.
McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. Wiley.
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