Date of Origination: 1/11/96
Collected by:  Paul Martin
Last modification: 1/11/96 by PSM

Description: This data is ice cream consumption measured over a 
             30 four-week period from March 18, 1951 to July 11, 1953.

Source:  Hand, D.J., F. Daly, A.D. Lunn, K.J. McConway, and E. Ostrowski (1994)
         A Handbook of Small Data Sets.  London:  Chapman & Hall.  
         #268: Ice cream consumption.
	 Koteswara Rao Kadiyala (1970) Testing for the independence of 
         regression disturbances.  Econometrica 38: 97-117.

Number of observations: 30
 
Variables: There are 5 variables in the data file. 
v1 "Week Number"
v2 "Pints of icecream purchaces per capita"
v3 "Average price per pint"
v4 "Family income"
v5 "Mean temperature, farenheight"


First three observations from datafile: 
1       .386        .27         78         41
2       .374       .282         79         56
3       .393       .277         81         63
Last three observations from datafile:
28       .416       .265         96         52
29       .437       .268         91         64
30       .548        .26         90         71