Attributes of some US and Japanese automobiles

Price, mileage, age and country of origin for 45 automobiles.

Usage

auto

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Model

Name of model

Country

Country of manufacture

Mileage

Mileage per gallon

Price

Price of car at time of measurement

Source

Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, Wiley: New York. Chapter 2.

References

Consumer Reports, April 1990, pp.235-255.

Examples

plot(Price ~ Mileage, data=auto, pch=19, col=2)
points(auto$Mileage[auto$Country=="USA"],
 auto$Price[auto$Country=="USA"], pch=19, col=4)
legend(30,25000,legend=c("USA","Japan"), pch=19, col=c(4,2))