="format">
    <h2>Format</h2>
    <p>A data frame/tibble  with 59 observations on two variables</p><dl><dt>cost</dt>
<dd><p>median costs of appendectomies at hospitals across the state of North Carolina in 1992</p></dd>
 
<dt>region</dt>
<dd><p>a vector classifying each hospital as rural, regional, or metropolitan</p></dd>
 

</dl></div>
    <div id="source">
    <h2>Source</h2>
    <p><em>Consumer's Guide to Hospitalization Charges in North Carolina Hospitals</em>
(August 1994), North Carolina Medical Dat