stocks_18: Monthly Returns for a few stocks

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

Monthly return data for a few stocks, which covers stock prices from November 2015 through October 2018.

Usage

data("stocks_18")

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 3 variables.

date

First day of the month corresponding to the returns.

goog

Google stock price change.

cat

Caterpillar stock price change.

xom

Exxon Mobil stock price change.

Source

Yahoo! Finance, direct download.

Examples

d <- stocks_18
dim(d)
apply(d[, 2:3], 2, mean)
apply(d[, 2:3], 2, sd)

JECheadle/RSOC317L documentation built on May 15, 2019, 4:02 a.m.