Somerville {Ecdat}

Visits to Lake Somerville

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 659

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Somerville)

Format

A dataframe containing :

visits

annual number of visits to lake Somerville

quality

quality ranking score for lake Somerville

ski

engaged in water–skiing at the lake ?

income

annual household income

feeSom

annual user fee paid at lake Somerville ?

costCon

expenditures when visiting lake Conroe

costSom

expenditures when visiting lake Somerville

costHoust

expenditures when visiting lake Houston

Source

Seller, Christine, John R. Stoll and Jean–Paul Chavas (1985) “Valuation of empirical measures of welfare change : a comparison of nonmarket techniques”, Land Economics, 61(2), May, 156–175.

Gurmu, Shiferaw and Pravin K. Trivedi (1996) “ Excess zeros in count models for recreational trips”, Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 14(4), October, 469–477.

Santos Silva, Jao M. C. (2001) “A score test for non–nested hypotheses with applications to discrete data models”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16(5), 577–597.

References

Journal of Business Economics and Statistics web site : https://amstat.tandfonline.com/loi/ubes20. Cameron, A.C. and Trivedi P.K. (1998) Regression analysis of count data, Cambridge University Press, http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/racddata.html, chapter 6.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations