This directory contains S/Splus system
files representing the aggregated data sets analyzed in the book
Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences, by
Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris,
Springer-Verlag and Sons, New York, 1999.
The files have the suffix ".dmp.zip" and are Zipped Splus/data.dump
versions that are operating system (i.e., UNIX, Windows)
independent. They can be read in using the "data.restore"
command
For example,
- Double click on the file to save it into the UNIX or PC sub-directory in which you use Splus.
- Unzip the file e.g.: % unzip RDBnls.dmp
- Start Splus e.g.: % Splus
- > data.restore("RDBnls.dmp")
- In both cases the variables names are "original" and "recent".
The data:
Description of data sources, and further information about the data sets,
can be found in the book.