longley {datasets} | R Documentation |
A macroeconomic data set which provides a well-known example for a highly collinear regression.
longley
A data frame with 7 economical variables, observed yearly from 1947 to 1962 (n=16).
The regression lm(Employed ~ .)
is known to be highly
collinear.
J. W. Longley (1967) An appraisal of least-squares programs from the point of view of the user. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 62, 819–841.
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
## give the data set in the form it is used in S-PLUS: longley.x <- data.matrix(longley[, 1:6]) longley.y <- longley[, "Employed"] pairs(longley, main = "longley data") summary(fm1 <- lm(Employed ~ ., data = longley)) opar <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), oma = c(0, 0, 1.1, 0), mar = c(4.1, 4.1, 2.1, 1.1)) plot(fm1) par(opar)