CountsEPPM (version 3.1)

takeover.bids.case: Takeover bids data.

Description

Data of the number of bids received by 126 U.S. firms that were targets of tender offers from 1978 to 1985.

Usage

data("takeover.bids.case")

Format

A data frame with 126 observations on the following 12 variables.

DOCNO

a numeric vector

WEEKS

a numeric vector

NUMBIDS

a numeric vector

BIDPREM

a numeric vector

INSTHOLD

a numeric vector

SIZE

a numeric vector

LEGLREST

a numeric vector

REALREST

a numeric vector

FINREST

a numeric vector

REGULATN

a numeric vector

WHTKNGHT

a numeric vector

SIZESQ

a numeric vector

Details

Data originally from Jaggia and Thosar (1993) and used as an example in Cameron and Trivedi (2013) and Saez-Castillo and Conde-Sanchez (2013).

References

Cameron, A.C., Trivedi, P.K. (2013). Regression Analysis of Count Data. Cambridge University Press, second edition.

Jaggia, S., Thosar, S. (1993). Multiple Bids as a Consequence of Target Management Resistance. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 447-457.

Saez-Castillo, A.J., Conde-Sanchez, A. (2013). A hyper-Poisson regression model for overdispersed and underdispersed count data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 61, 148-157.tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.csda.2012.12.009")

Examples

data(takeover.bids.case)
print(takeover.bids.case)