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Data Set for CHAPTER 2


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The population density in people/mile2 (second column) of Boston in 1940 as a function of the distance in miles (first column) from the city center. Data from "Urban Population Densities" by C. Clark, Jour. Roy. Stat. Soc., Volume 64, 1951, 490-496.


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1st col 2nd col
0.5 26300
1.5 25100
2.5 19900
3.5 15500
4.5 11500
5.5 9800
6.5 5200
7.5 4600
8.5 3200
9.5 2300
10.5 1700
11.5 1200
12.5 900
13.5 700
14.5 600
15.5 500