Weekly percentage returns for the S&P 500 stock index
between 1990 and 2010.
Usage
Weekly
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 1089 observations on the following 9 variables.
Year
The year that the observation was recorded
Lag1
Percentage return for previous week
Lag2
Percentage return for 2 weeks previous
Lag3
Percentage return for 3 weeks previous
Lag4
Percentage return for 4 weeks previous
Lag5
Percentage return for 5 weeks previous
Volume
Volume of shares traded (average number of daily shares
traded in billions)
Today
Percentage return for this week
Direction
A factor with levels Down and
Up indicating whether the market had a positive or negative
return on a given week
References
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R,
https://www.statlearning.com,
Springer-Verlag, New York