shiller: Shiller Home Price Index

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Description

Robert J Shiller is an economics professor at Yale University, and one of the leading experts on housing prices in the United States. This data set contains his home price index (and some other data) over the past century.

Usage

data(shiller)

Format

A data frame with 126 observations on the following 2 variables.

Year

a numeric vector

Real.Home.Price.Index

a numeric vector

Details

This data set is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly Media.

Other information (including long bond rates, US population size, and cost of construction) is included in shiller.other.data.

Source

http://www.irrationalexuberance.com/

Examples

data(shiller)
# loads shiller.index, shiller.other.data
# linear fit
hpi.lm <- lm(Real.Home.Price.Index~Year,data=shiller.index)
# plotting the fit
plot(shiller.index,pch=19,cex=0.3)
abline(reg=hpi.lm,lty=1)

Example output

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