acme {boot}R Documentation

Monthly Excess Returns

Arguments

month A character string representing the month of the observation.
market The excess return of the market as a whole.
acme The excess return for the Acme Cleveland Corporation.

SUMMARY

The acme data frame has 60 rows and 3 columns.

The excess return for the Acme Cleveland Corporation are recorded along with those for all stocks listed on the New York and American Stock Exchanges were recorded over a five year period. These excess returns are relative to the return on a risk-less investment such a U.S. Treasury bills.

DATA DESCRIPTION

This data frame contains the following columns:

SOURCE

The data were obtained from

Simonoff, J.S. and Tsai, C.-L. (1994) Use of modified profile likelihood for improved tests of constancy of variance in regression. Applied Statistics, 43, 353-370.

OTHER REFERENCES

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.


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