Automobile data from Stata

Description

This data, which comes standard in Stata, originally came from the April 1979 issue of Consumer Reports and from the United States Government EPA statistics on fuel consumption; they were compiled and published by Chambers et al. (1983).

Usage

auto

Format

A data frame with 74 rows and 12 variables

make

Make and Model

price

Price

mpg

Mileage (mpg)

rep78

Repair Record 1978

headroom

Headroom (in.)

trunk

Trunk space (cu. ft.)

weight

Weight (lbs.)

length

Length (in.)

turn

Turn Circle (ft.)

displacement

Displacement (cu. in.)

gear_ratio

Gear Ratio

foreign

Car type; 0 = Domestic, 1 = Foreign

Details

This data is used in the Probability and Regression Review chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape.

Source

Chambers, J. M., W. S. Cleveland, B. Kleiner, and P. A. Tukey. 1983. Graphical Methods for Data Analysis. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

References

Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.