ex1517

The Standard and Poor's 500 stock index (S&P 500) is a benchmark of stock 
  market performance, based on 400 industrial firms, 40 financial stocks, 
  40 utilities, and 20 transportation stocks. These data include the value of a 
  $1 investment in 1871 at the end of each year from 1871 to 1999, according to 
  the S&P 500, assuming all dividends are reinvested. Describe the distribution
  of the S&P value as a function of year.

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Data sets from Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013), "The
    Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd
    ed)", Cengage Learning. 

Berwin Turlach

Sleuth3

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd
        Ed)"

ex1517 function

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). <em>The Statistical Sleuth: A
    Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed)</em>, Cengage Learning.

ex1517: S&P 500

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