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SERIES B
Statistical Methodology

P. Hall et al.: Local likelihood tracking of fault lines and boundaries
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Applied Statistics, Sercies B, volume 63 (2001), part 3, pages 569-582

Description of the dataset:

The data in "hall.dat" are of 123 US electric utility companies, and were gathered in 1970. Various papers in the statistical and econometrics literature have used these data since; cf. the reference in Section 4.3 of the paper. It is believed that the dataset was first used in the paper by L.Christensen and W.Greene,

"Economies of Scale in US Electric Power Generation", Journal of Political Economy, 84 (4), 655-676.

The log values of the two columns in "hall.dat" correspond to the x and y coordinates, respectively, of the 123 data points of which Figure 3 depicts those within the range 0 <= x <= 5.

The dataset is published with kind permission of W.Greene.

Peter Hall
Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications The Australian National University
Canberra
ACT 0200
Australia

E-mail:peter.hall@maths.anu.edu.au

Christian Rau
Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications The Australian National University
Canberra
ACT 0200
Australia

E-mail: christian.rau@maths.anu.edu.au

• Dataset (hall.dat, 2kb)

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