longley
Longley's Economic Regression Data
A macroeconomic data set which provides a well-known example for a highly collinear regression.
Usage
longley
Format
A data frame with 7 economical variables, observed yearly from 1947 to 1962 (n=16).
GNP.deflator
-
GNP implicit price deflator (1954=100)
GNP
-
Gross National Product.
Unemployed
-
number of unemployed.
Armed.Forces
-
number of people in the armed forces.
Population
-
‘noninstitutionalized’ population ≥ 14 years of age.
Year
-
the year (time).
Employed
-
number of people employed.
The regression lm(Employed ~ .)
is known to be highly collinear.
Source
J. W. Longley (1967) An appraisal of least-squares programs from the point of view of the user. Journal of the American Statistical Association 62, 819–841.
References
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
Examples
require(stats); require(graphics) ## give the data set in the form it is used in S-PLUS: longley.x <- data.matrix(longley[, 1:6]) longley.y <- longley[, "Employed"] pairs(longley, main = "longley data") summary(fm1 <- lm(Employed ~ ., data = longley)) opar <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), oma = c(0, 0, 1.1, 0), mar = c(4.1, 4.1, 2.1, 1.1)) plot(fm1) par(opar)