Racdread.1st  begun  7/29/98

This file describes data, programs and output and figure construction for 
  
  A.C. Cameron and P.K. Trivedi (1998)
  REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF COUNT DATA 
  Econometric Society Monograph No.30, Cambridge University Press.

The data sets and programs are in the following format,
where x is the number of the chapter in which the data is used,
and for program files and results y = 1,2,3,.. is the program number:

racdx.1st            Description of data set and the following data sets.
racdx.asc            Data set as ascii data set.
racdx.dat,.dht etc   Data set as gauss data set or other data set.
                     Note: .dat extension is for Gauss data set not text data.
racdxpy.lim,.sas,... Limdep program, SAS program, etc ...
racdxpy.out          Results from Limdep program, SAS program, etc ...

For example, racd5p2.lim is the second limdep program for chapter 5,
and the results are in racd5p2.out


CHAPTER 3 Doctor visits

The data set is in racd3.asc
The data set is exactly that used in chapter 3, 
with the addition of six other count variables (some used in chapter 8): 
  hospital admissions, hospital days, nondoctor consultations,
  total medicines, prescribed medicines, nonprescribed medicines. 
It is also used in chapter 8.


CHAPTER 4 Doctor visits

Same data as Chapter 3.


CHAPTER 5 Takeover bids

The data set is racd5.asc


CHAPTER 6A OFP Visits

The data set is racd6d1.asc


CHAPTER 6B Recreational Trips

The data set is racd6d2.asc  


CHAPTER 7  Strikes

Data is in racd7.asc


CHAPTER 8  Health data

Same data as chapter 3.


CHAPTER 9  Patents

Data is in racd9d1.asc  Original data
           racd9d2.asc  Reformatted data for use with Limdep panel commands


CHAPTER 12  Recreational trips

Same data as chapter 6B.


FIGURES

racdfigs.1st  Describes the creation of figures
racd.jnb      Sigmaplot file with all the figures
              (To read this you need Jandel Scientific Sigmaplot)