"""(West) German interest and inflation rate 1972-1998""" from statsmodels.datasets import utils as du __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext' COPYRIGHT = """...""" # TODO TITLE = __doc__ SOURCE = """ http://www.jmulti.de/download/datasets/e6.dat """ DESCRSHORT = """(West) German interest and inflation rate 1972Q2 - 1998Q4""" DESCRLONG = """West German (until 1990) / German (afterwards) interest and inflation rate 1972Q2 - 1998Q4 """ NOTE = """:: Number of Observations - 107 Number of Variables - 2 Variable name definitions:: year - 1972q2 - 1998q4 quarter - 1-4 Dp - Delta log gdp deflator R - nominal long term interest rate """ variable_names = ["Dp", "R"] first_season = 1 # 1 stands for: first observation in Q2 (0 would mean Q1) def load(): """ Load the West German interest/inflation data and return a Dataset class. Returns ------- Dataset See DATASET_PROPOSAL.txt for more information. Notes ----- The interest_inflation Dataset instance does not contain endog and exog attributes. """ return load_pandas() def load_pandas(): data = _get_data() names = data.columns dataset = du.Dataset(data=data, names=names) return dataset def _get_data(): return du.load_csv(__file__, 'E6.csv', convert_float=True) def __str__(): return "e6"