ImportFSD: Import Firm Size and Firm Age Data

In bda: Binned Data Analysis

Import Firm Size and Firm Age Data

Description

To read firm size and/or firm age data from built-in datasets.

Usage

 ImportFSD(x,type,year)

Arguments

x	A built-in firm size and/or firm age dataset.
type	type of data: "size" or "age". If missing, read the age data from rows and the size data from columns.
year	The number year the firm size/age data to be read. If missing, assume the year is 2014.

Value

xy	a matrix of joint frequency distribution table.
breaks	the class boundaries for firm age as a component age, and for firm size as a component size.
size	a 'bdata' subject of the firm size data
age	a 'bdata' object of the firm age data

Examples

 data(FSD)
 ## bivariate data
 xy = ImportFSD(Firm2)
 ## firm age of 2013
 x = ImportFSD(FirmAge, type="age", year=2013)
 ## firm size of 2013
 y = ImportFSD(FirmSize, type="size", year=2013)

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