R/strikes.R

In camerondata: Datasets from "Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications" by Cameron and Trivedi

#' Strikes duration
#'
#' Data set on 566 contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing for
#' the period 1968-76. The data has been used by Kennan (1985),
#' Jaggia (1991), and others, and was originally published by the U.S.
#' Department of Labor.
#' Cameron and Trivedi (2005).
#'
#'
#'
#' @usage strikes
#'
#' @format A data frame with 566 observations and 2 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{dur}{duration of the strike, number of days from the
#'   start of the strike.}
#'   \item{gdp}{measure of business cycle stage, deviation of
#'   monthly log industrial production in manufacturing.}
#' }
#' @section Section in Text:
#' 17.2 Duration Models, pp. 574-5, 582
#' @source \url{http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/mmabook/mmadata.html}
#' @references
#' Cameron, A. and Trivedi, P. (2005), "Microeconometrics: Methods and
#' Applications," Cambridge University Press, New York.
#'
#' Kennan, J. (1985), "The Duration of Contract strikes in U.S. Manufacturing,"
#' Journal of Econometrics, 28, 5-28.
#'
#' Jaggia, S. (1991), "Specification Tests Based on the Heterogeneous Generalized
#' Gamma Model of Duration: With an Application to Kennan's Strike Data,"
#' Journal of Applied Econometrics, 6, 169--180.
#' @examples
#' summary(strikes)
"strikes"