us.sector.profitability.1959.1968 {cluster.datasets}

Hartigan (1975) Profitability of U.S. Economic Sectors

Description

The table contains the profit as a percentage of stockholder's equity for various economc sectors for the years 1959 through 1968. This is Table 14.12 in Chapter 14 of Hartigan (1975) on page 266.

Usage

data(us.sector.profitability.1959.1968)

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 12 variables.

code

a character vector for the sector code

sector

a character vector for the sector name

y.1959

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1959

y.1960

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1960

y.1961

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1961

y.1962

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1962

y.1963

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1963

y.1964

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1964

y.1965

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1965

y.1966

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1966

y.1967

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1967

y.1968

a numeric vector for the profits in year 1968

Details

Hartigan suggests that the direct splitting algorithm be applied to this data set.

Source

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(us.sector.profitability.1959.1968)