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8.2.45.44 octave.dataset.Nile ¶

Static Method: out = Nile () ¶

Flow of the River Nile

Description ¶

Measurements of the annual flow of the river Nile at Aswan (formerly Assuan), 1871–1970, in m^3, “with apparent changepoint near 1898” (Cobb(1978), Table 1, p.249).

Format ¶

year

Year of the record.

flow

Annual flow (cubic meters).

Source ¶

Durbin, J. and Koopman, S. J. (2001). Time Series Analysis by State Space Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.ssfpack.com/DKbook.html

References ¶

Balke, N. S. (1993). Detecting level shifts in time series. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 11, 81–92.

Cobb, G. W. (1978). The problem of the Nile: conditional solution to a change-point problem. Biometrika 65, 243–51.

Examples ¶

t = octave.dataset.Nile;

figure
plot (t.year, t.flow);

# TODO: Port the rest of the example to Octave