The cable data set
The penetration of cable television in 283 market areas in the USA.
data("cable")A data frame with 283 observations on the following 6 variables.
pen5proportion of households having cable TV in market area
linlog median income
childpercentage of households with children
ltvnumber of local TV stations
disconsumer satisfaction index with values 0 and 1
ageheage of cable TV headend
The cable data set concerns the penetration of cable television in 283 market areas in the USA. The data were collected in a mailed survey questionnaire in 1992 Kieschnick and McCullough (2003). The aim of the study was to explain cable television uptake (the proportion pen5) as a function of area demographics.
Kieschnick and McCullough (2003)
Kieschnick, R. and McCullough, B. D. (2003) Regression analysis of variates observed on (0, 1): percentages, proportions and fractions, Statistical Modelling, 3, Vol 3, pp 193-213, Sage Publications Sage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA.
data(cable)
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