R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Journals

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Journals data set which pertains to Economic Journals Dat Set . The Journals data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Journals data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Journals"). This will load the data into a variable called Journals. If R says the Journals data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Journals R data set. The size of this file is about 15,979 bytes.

Economic Journals Dat Set

Description

a cross-section from 2000

number of observations : 180

observation : goods

Usage

data(Journals)

Format

A dataframe containing :

title: journal title
pub: publisher
society: scholarly society ?
libprice: library subscription price
pages: number of pages
charpp: characters per page
citestot: total number of citations
date1: year journal was founded
oclc: number of library subscriptions
field: field description

Source

Professor Theodore Bergstrom of the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.

References

Stock, James H. and Mark W. Watson (2003) Introduction to Econometrics, Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, chapter 6.

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