film90 {gamlss.data}

Film revenue data for the 1990's

Description

Data from film revenues from the 1990s'.

Usage

data(film90)

Format

A data frame with 4031 observations on the following 4 variables.

lnosc

the log of the number of screens

lboopen

the log of box office opening revenues

lborev1

the log of box office revenues after the first week

dist

a factor indicating whether Independent or Major distributor

Details

Those data are data analysed in Voudouris et. al. (2011) suitably anonymised.

Source

Data collected by Prof. John Sedgwick

References

Gilchrist, R., Rigby, R., Sedgwick, J., Stasinopoulos, S., Voudouris, V. (2011) Forecasting film revenues using GAMLSS, in Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling ed: Conesa, D., Forte, A., Lopez-Quilez, A., Munoz, F., 263-268, Valencia, Spain.

Voudouris V., Gilchrist R., Rigby R., Sedgwick J. and Stasinopoulos D. (2011) Modelling skewness and kurtosis with the BCPE density in GAMLSS. Journal of Applied Statistics

Examples

data(film90)