B3                   package:klaR                   R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     West German Business Cycles 1955-1994

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(B3)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 157 observations on the following 14 variables.

     _P_H_A_S_E_N a factor with levels '1' (upswing),  '2' (upper turning
          points), '3' (downswing), and '4' (lower turning points).

     _B_S_P_9_1_J_W GNP (y)

     _C_P_9_1_J_W Private Consumption (y)

     _D_E_F_R_A_T_E Government deficit (percent of GNP)

     _E_W_A_J_W Wage and salary earners (y)

     _E_X_I_M_R_A_T_E Net exports as (percent of GNP)

     _G_M_1_J_W Money supply M1 (y)

     _I_A_U_9_1_J_W Investment in equipment (y)

     _I_B_9_1_J_W Investment in construction (y)

     _L_S_T_K_J_W Unit labor cost (y)

     _P_B_S_P_J_W GNP price deflator (y)

     _P_C_P_J_W Consumer price index (y)

     _Z_I_N_S_K Short term interest rate (nominal)

     _Z_I_N_S_L_R Long term interest rate (real)

     where (y) stands for "yearly growth rates".

     Note that years and corresponding year quarters are given in the
     row names of the data frame, e.g. "1988,3" for the third quarter
     in 1988.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The West German Business Cycles data (1955-1994) is analyzed by
     the project _B3_ of the SFB475 (Collaborative Research Centre 
     "Reduction of Complexity for Multivariate Data Structures"),
     supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     RWI (Rheinisch Westflisches Institut fr Wirtschaftsforschung),
     Essen, Germany.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Heilemann, U. and Mnch, H.J. (1996):  West German Business Cycles
     1963-1994: A Multivariate Discriminant Analysis. _CIRET-Conference
     in Singapore, CIRET-Studien_ 50.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(B3)
     summary(B3)

