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data.printer: Prices and Qualitative Characteristics of Laser Printers

Description

This is a data set on the prices and qualitative characteristics of laser printers from 1992 to 2001.

Usage

data.printer

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 44 observations on the following five variables:

priceprice of the printer (in euro).
speedprinter's speed (in pages per minute).
sizeprinter's size (in cubic decimeter).
mcostmaintenance costs of printer (in cent per page).
tdifftime difference between the printer's observation and the data set's first observed laser printer (in month).

Details

In Auer (2023, Chap. 21) and Auer et al. (2024, Chap. 21) these hypothetical data are used to illustrate the consequences of multicollinear exogenous variables.

References

Auer, L.v., Hoffmann, S. & Kranz, T. (2024): Ökonometrie - Das R-Arbeitsbuch, 2nd ed., Springer-Gabler (https://www.oekonometrie-lernen.de).