ex1515: S&P 500

In Sleuth2: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

S&P 500

Description

Data on the value of a $1 U.S. stock investment in 1871 at the end of each year, based on the Standard and Poor (S&P) 500 Composite stock index.

Usage

ex1515

Format

A data frame with 129 observations on the following 2 variables.

Year

year

SPReturn

S&P composite stock index ($)

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

Examples

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