pntsprd

Wooldridge Source: Collected by Scott Resnick, a former MSU undergraduate, from various newspaper sources. Data loads lazily.

datasets

Students learning both econometrics and R may find the introduction
to both challenging. The wooldridge data package aims to lighten the task by efficiently
loading any data set found in the text with a single command. Data sets have been
compressed to a fraction of their original size. Documentation files contain page numbers,
the original source, time of publication, and notes from the author suggesting avenues for
further analysis and research. If one needs an introduction to R model syntax, a
vignette contains solutions to examples from chapters of the text.
Data sets are from the 7th edition (Wooldridge 2020, ISBN-13 978-1-337-55886-0),
and are backwards compatible with all previous versions of the text.

Justin Shea

wooldridge

115 Data Sets from "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern
Approach, 7e" by Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Justin M. Shea

Kennth H. Brown

pntsprd function

A data.frame with 553 observations on 12 variables:<ul>
<li>favscr: favored team's score</li>
<li>undscr: underdog's score</li>
<li>spread: las vegas spread</li>
<li>favhome: =1 if favored team at home</li>
<li>neutral: =1 if neutral site</li>
<li>fav25: =1 if favored team in top 25</li>
<li>und25: =1 if underdog in top 25</li>
<li>fregion: favorite's region of country</li>
<li>uregion: underdog's region of country</li>
<li>scrdiff: favscr - undscr</li>
<li>sprdcvr: =1 if spread covered</li>
<li>favwin: =1 if favored team wins</li>
</ul>

Format

The data are for the 1994-1995 men’s college basketball seasons. The spread is for the day before the game was played. One might collect more recent data and determine whether the spread has become a less accurate predictor of the actual outcome in more recent years. In other words, in the simple regression of the actual score differential on the spread, is the variance larger in more recent years. (We should fully expect the slope coefficient not to be statistically different from one.)
Used in Text: pages 300, 624, 697

pntsprd: pntsprd

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