\HeaderA{starmine}{StarMine Rankings, 1995}{starmine}
\keyword{datasets}{starmine}
\begin{Description}\relax
StarMine rankings of some stocks in 1995, with corresponding returns
and other data.
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}data(starmine)\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Format}\relax
A data frame containing 53328 observations on the following 10 variables.
\describe{
\item[\code{date}] Date on which the observation was recorded.  The
dates have a monthly frequency.  Dates range from 1995-01-31 to 1995-11-30.
\item[\code{id}] Unique identifier for each stock.
\item[\code{name}] Full company name.
\item[\code{country}] Country of the exchange on which the
company is listed.
\item[\code{sector}] Sector to which the stock belongs.
\item[\code{cap.usd}] Market capitalisation of the company in USD.
\item[\code{size}] cap.usd normalized to N(0,1).
\item[\code{smi}] StarMine Indicator (smi) score
for each security and date if a score was issued.
\item[\code{fwd.ret.1m}] 1 month forward return.
\item[\code{fwd.ret.6m}] 6 month forward return.
}
\end{Format}
\begin{Details}\relax
\code{starmine} contains selected attributes such as sector, market
capitalisation, country, and various measures of return for a universe
of approximately 6,000 stocks.  The data is on a monthly frequency from
January 31, 1995 to November 30, 1995.
\end{Details}
\begin{Note}\relax
We would like to thank StarMine Corporation for allowing us to
include this data in the backtest package.
\end{Note}
\begin{Source}\relax
StarMine Corporation.  For more information, see \url{http://www.starmine.com}.
\end{Source}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
data(starmine)
head(starmine)
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

