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Passenger Miles on Commercial US Airlines, 1937–1960

Description

The revenue passenger miles flown by commercial airlines in the United States for each year from 1937 to 1960.

Usage

airmiles

Format

A time series of 24 observations; yearly, 1937–1960.

Source

F.A.A. Statistical Handbook of Aviation.

References

Brown, R. G. (1963) Smoothing, Forecasting and Prediction of Discrete Time Series. Prentice-Hall.

Examples

require(graphics)
plot(airmiles, main = "airmiles data",
     xlab = "Passenger-miles flown by U.S. commercial airlines", col = 4)

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