octave.dataset.Nile (Octave Tablicious v0.3.7)
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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