barro                package:quantreg                R Documentation

_B_a_r_r_o _D_a_t_a

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

     Version of the Barro Growth Data used in Koenker and
     Machado(1999). This is a regression data set consisting of 161
     observations on determinants of cross country GDP growth rates.
     There are 13 covariates with dimnames corresponding to the
     original Barro and Lee source.  See
     http://www.nber.org/pub/barro.lee/.  The first 71 observations are
     on the period 1965-75, remainder on 1987-85.

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

     data(barro)

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

     A data frame containing 161 observations on 14 variables:

        [,1]  "Annual Change Per Capita GDP"
        [,2]  "Initial Per Capita GDP"
        [,3]  "Male Secondary Education"
        [,4]  "Female Secondary Education"
        [,5]  "Female Higher Education"
        [,6]  "Male Higher Education"
        [,7]  "Life Expectancy"
        [,8]  "Human Capital"
        [,9]  "Education/GDP"
       [,10]  "Investment/GDP"
       [,11]  "Public Consumption/GDP"
       [,12]  "Black Market Premium"
       [,13]  "Political Instability"
       [,14]  "Growth Rate Terms Trade"

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

     Koenker, R. and J.A.F. Machado (1999) Goodness of Fit and Related
     Inference Processes for Quantile Regression, JASA, 1296-1310.

