data.printer {desk}

Prices and Qualitative Characteristics of Laser Printers

Description

This is a data set on the prices and qualitative characteristics of laser printers from 1992 to 2001.

Usage

data.printer

Format

A data frame with 44 observations on the following five variables:

price	price of the printer (in euro).
speed	printer's speed (in pages per minute).
size	printer's size (in cubic decimeter).
mcost	maintenance costs of printer (in cent per page).
tdiff	time difference between the printer's observation and the data set's first observed laser printer (in month).

Details

In Auer (2023, Chap. 21) and Auer et al. (2023, Chap. 21) these hypothetical data are used to illustrate the consequences of multicollinear exogenous variables.

Source

Data from computer magazin c't (February 1992 to August 2001).

Auer, L.v. (2023): Ökonometrie - Eine Einführung, 8th ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2023): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).