US macroeconomic data for fitting a distributed lag model.

data(USDistLag)

Format

An annual time series from 1963 to 1982 with 2 variables.

consumption

real consumption,

gnp

gross national product (deflated by CPI).

Source

Table 7.7 in Greene (1993)

References

Greene W.H. (1993), Econometric Analysis, 2nd edition. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York.

Executive Office of the President (1983), Economic Report of the President. US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Examples

## Willam H. Greene, Econometric Analysis, 2nd Ed.
## Chapter 7
## load data set, p. 221, Table 7.7
data(USDistLag)

## fit distributed lag model, p.221, Example 7.8
usdl <- na.contiguous(cbind(USDistLag, lag(USDistLag, k = -1)))
colnames(usdl) <- c("con", "gnp", "con1", "gnp1")

## C(t) = b0 + b1*Y(t) + b2*C(t-1) + u
fm <- lm(con ~ gnp + con1, data = usdl)
summary(fm)
#> 
#> Call:
#> lm(formula = con ~ gnp + con1, data = usdl)
#> 
#> Residuals:
#>      Min       1Q   Median       3Q      Max 
#> -11.6127  -3.8405  -0.8536   4.3857  12.6428 
#> 
#> Coefficients:
#>             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
#> (Intercept) -7.69575   11.44429  -0.672 0.510891    
#> gnp          0.40015    0.06272   6.380 9.12e-06 ***
#> con1         0.38073    0.09479   4.017 0.000996 ***
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> 
#> Residual standard error: 6.837 on 16 degrees of freedom
#> Multiple R-squared:  0.9976,	Adjusted R-squared:  0.9973 
#> F-statistic:  3302 on 2 and 16 DF,  p-value: < 2.2e-16
#> 
vcov(fm)
#>             (Intercept)          gnp         con1
#> (Intercept) 130.9718602 -0.438682677  0.549587054
#> gnp          -0.4386827  0.003933498 -0.005896092
#> con1          0.5495871 -0.005896092  0.008984392