R: The LGA Claims Data files for GAMLSS

LGAclaims {gamlss.data} | R Documentation

## The LGA Claims Data files for GAMLSS

### Description

These are several small data files usefull for gamlss fits.

LGAclaims: the data were given by Gillian Heller and can be found in de Jong and Heller (2007). This data set records the number of third party claims, `Claims`, in a twelve month period between 1984-1986 in each of 176 geographical areas (local government areas) in New South Wales, Australia. Areas are grouped into thirteen statistical divisions (`SD`). Other recorded variables are the number of accidents, `Accidents`, the number of people killed or injured and population with all variables classified according to area.

### Usage

    data(LGAclaims)

### Format

Data frames each with the following variable.

Claims

  the number of third party claims

LGA

  Local government areas in New South Wales

SD

  statistical divisions

Pop$\_$density

  population density

KI

  the number of people killed or injured

Accidents

  the number of accidents

Population

  population size

L$\_$KI

  log of KI

L$\_$Accidents

  the log of the number of accidents

L$\_$Population

  log Population

### Details

Data sets usefull for the GAMLSS booklet

### References

de Jong, P. and Heller G. (2007) Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data , Cambridge University Press

### Examples

    data(LGAclaims)
    with(LGAclaims, plot(data.frame(Claims, Pop_density, KI, Accidents, Population)))

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