On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Carseats data set which pertains to Sales of Child Car Seats. The Carseats data set is found in the ISLR R package. You can load the Carseats data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Carseats"). This will load the data into a variable called Carseats. If R says the Carseats data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("ISLR") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Carseats R data set. The size of this file is about 19,044 bytes.

Sales of Child Car Seats

Description

A simulated data set containing sales of child car seats at 400 different stores.

Usage

Carseats

Format

A data frame with 400 observations on the following 11 variables.

Sales

Unit sales (in thousands) at each location

CompPrice

Price charged by competitor at each location

Income

Community income level (in thousands of dollars)

Advertising

Local advertising budget for company at each location (in thousands of dollars)

Population

Population size in region (in thousands)

Price

Price company charges for car seats at each site

ShelveLoc

A factor with levels Bad, Good and Medium indicating the quality of the shelving location for the car seats at each site

Age

Average age of the local population

Education

Education level at each location

Urban

A factor with levels No and Yes to indicate whether the store is in an urban or rural location

US

A factor with levels No and Yes to indicate whether the store is in the US or not

Source

Simulated data

References

Games, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, www.StatLearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York

Examples

summary(Carseats)
lm.fit=lm(Sales~Advertising+Price,data=Carseats)

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Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.