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Motor Trend Road Tests

Description

The data was extracted from 1974 Motor Trend magazine, and comprises gasoline mileage in gallons per mile (GPM) and 10 aspects of automobile design and performance for 32 automobiles (1973-74 models).

Usage

data(mtcars)

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on 11 variables.

[, 1] mpg Miles/gallon
[, 2] cyl Number of cylinders
[, 3] disp Displacement (cu.in.)
[, 4] hp Gross horsepower
[, 5] drat Rear axle ratio
[, 6] wt Weight (lb/1000)
[, 7] qsec 1/4 mile time
[, 8] vs V/S
[, 9] am Transmission (0 = automatic, 1 = manual)
[,10] gear Number of forward gears
[,11] carb Number of carburettors

Source

Henderson and Velleman (1981), Building multiple regression models interactively. Biometrics, 37, 391–411.


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