insurance.Rd
The simulated insurance
data contain information about medical charges billed to 1338 Americans during 2003.
insurance
a data frame of 1338 observations containing the following variables:
age (in years)
sex of individual, male
or female
body mass index (in kg/ sq.meter)
number of dependent children
logical, yes
if the person is a smoker and no
otherwise
categorical variable, the geographical location within the USA, one of southwest
, southeast
, northwest
or northeast
individual medical costs billed by health insurance (in USD).
Lantz, Brett (2003), Machine Learning with R, Packt Publishing.