Data on the relationship between the number of initial public
offerings (of shares in a company) and other potentially important variables.
It is probably necessary to lag some of the explanatory variables.

data

Data sets and scripts used in the book "Generalized
        Additive Models: An Introduction with R", Wood (2006) CRC.

Simon Wood

gamair

Data for "GAMs: An Introduction with R"

ipo function

A data frame with 6 columns and 156 rows. The columns are:
<ul><li>n.ipo</li></ul>{number of initial pubilc offerings each month.}
<item>ir</item>{the average initial return (volume weighted): this is the percentage
difference between the offer proce of shares and the price after the first day
of trading.}
<item>dp</item>{the average percentage difference between middle of the price range
proposed at first filing of the IPO, and the eventual offer price.}
<item>reg.t</item>{the average time between filing and offer.}
<item>t</item>{time, in months.}
<item>n.ipo</item>{month of the year (1 = January).}

format

<url>http://schwert.ssb.rochester.edu</url>

ipo: Initial Public Offering Data

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