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SERIES C  
Applied Statistics

A threshold autoregressive model for wholesale electricity prices, by B. R. Rambharat, A. E. Brockwell and D. J. Seppi
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C, Applied Statistics, Volume 54 (2005) part 1, 287 - 299

DESCRIPTION OF DATA SET:

The file C5424Rdata.dat contains two columns of data.

Column 1 contains daily maximum wholesale electricity prices in US dollars per megawatt-hour for the period December 1, 1998, to November 30, 2001, for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. These data were obtained from the web site www.pjm.com, which publishes wholesale electricity prices for the mid-Atlantic region of the USA.

Column 2 contains daily temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit that correspond to the daily maximum prices in column 1. These data were obtained from the National Weather Services web site www.nws.noaa.gov.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

B. Ricky Rambharat
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
232 Baker Hall
Pittsburgh
PA 15213-3890
USA
E-mail: br2@stat.cmu.edu

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Statistics in Society

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Statistical Methodology

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Applied Statistics

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The Statistician