cluster.datasets (version 1.0-1)

sample.stock.yields.1959.1969: Hartigan (1975) Yield of Stocks

Description

The table contains the dividend by average price for each year and for a sample of stocks. This is Table 11.13 in Chapter 11 of Hartigan (1975) on page 210.

Usage

data(sample.stock.yields.1959.1969)

Format

A data frame with 34 observations on the following 12 variables.

stock

a character vector for the company name

y.1959

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1959

y.1960

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1960

y.1961

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1961

y.1962

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1962

y.1963

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1963

y.1964

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1964

y.1965

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1965

y.1966

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1966

y.1967

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1967

y.1968

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1968

y.1969

a numeric vector for the dividend yield in 1969

Source

Moody's Handbook of Common Stocks/ SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

Hartigan proposes applying the single linkage algorithm to this data set.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(sample.stock.yields.1959.1969)