olympics: Olympics Data

In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description

Obs: 1610

Usage

data("olympics")

Format

A data frame with 1610 observations on the following 11 variables.

country

country code

year

olympics year

gdp

gross domestic product, 1995 dollars

pop

population

gold

number of gold medals won

silver

number of silver medals won

bronze

number of bronze medals won

medaltot

total number of medals won

host

= 1 if host country

planned

= 1 if non-soviet planned

soviet

= 1 if soviet

Source

http://principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/poe4.htm

References

Andrew B. Bernard and Meghan R. Busse "Who wins the olympic games: Economic resources and medal totals," The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2004, 86(1), 413-417.

We thank Dr. Bernard for providing these data

Examples

data(olympics)
## maybe str(olympics) ; plot(olympics) ...

ccolonescu/PoEdata documentation built on May 13, 2019, 2:17 p.m.