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% Please edit documentation in R/data.R
\docType{data}
\name{hospital.hist}
\alias{hospital.hist}
\title{Hospital Costs Histogram-Valued Dataset}
\format{
A data frame with 15 observations and 1 histogram-valued variable:
\itemize{
    \item \code{cost}: Histogram-valued cost distribution (currency units).
}
Row names are H1 through H15.
}
\source{
Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006), Table 3.12.
}
\usage{
data(hospital.hist)
}
\description{
Histogram-valued cost distributions for 15 hospitals. Each observation
is a hospital with a 10-bin histogram of patient costs.
}
\section{Metadata}{

\tabular{ll}{
  \strong{Sample size (n)} \tab 15 \cr
  \strong{Variables (p)} \tab 1 \cr
  \strong{Subject area} \tab Healthcare \cr
  \strong{Symbolic format} \tab Histogram \cr
  \strong{Analytical tasks} \tab Descriptive statistics, Clustering
}
}

\examples{
data(hospital.hist)
}
\references{
Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). \emph{Symbolic Data Analysis:
Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining}. Wiley, Chichester. Table 3.12.
}
\keyword{datasets}
\keyword{histogram}
