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IBM sales and profit

Source: R/data.R
ibm.Rd

IBM sales and profit (1954-1984) and forecasts.

Usage

ibm

Format

Time series data

Sales

IBM annual sales

Profit

IBM annual profit

FSales

Forecast of IBM sales made in 1984

FProfit

Forecast of IBM profits made in 1984

Source

Makridakis, Wheelwright and Hyndman (1998) Forecasting: methods and applications, John Wiley & Sons: New York. Chapter 9.

Examples

par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(ibm[,1], xlim=c(1954,2000), ylim=c(0,200),
  ylab="Sales (billions of $)", xlab="Year", type="o")
lines(ibm[,3],col=2,type="o")
plot(ibm[,2], xlim=c(1954,2000), ylim=c(-10,30),
  ylab="Profits (billions of $)", xlab="Year", type="o")
lines(ibm[,4],col=2,type="o")