LISTING AND DESCRIPTIONS OF DATA INCLUDED IN ASTSA



FILE                SERIES DESCRIPTION
                                                                  
BIRTH.DAT           Monthly live births in thousands for the U.S. 1948-1979.
                    Values may have been adjusted.	

BLOOD.DAT           SBP and DBP readings for a mild hypertensive, sampled 
                    2 times per day for 230 days.

CLIM-HYD            Lake Shasta inflow.  		


DOMS.DAT            Environmental and Genetic Series (5K yr,68val.)
                    (1) Genetic Distances (Squirrel Populations)
                    (2) Oxygen-18
                    (3) Milankovitch Cycles
                    (4) Sand-Silt Measurements

Coss, R.G., R.O. Goldthwaite, D.G. Smith and R.H. Shumway (1992).
Ground squirrel population divergences correlate with fluctuating
glacial-interglacial conditions.  Unpublished Preprint.

FISH.DAT            Fish and the Environment (453 months)
                    (1) Southern Oscillation Index
                    (2) Number of Recruits

Kleiber, Pierre (1991). Southwest Fisheries Center, Lajolla,
California.

FRB.DAT             Production adn Federal Reserve Board Index
                    (see text, Figure 2.21).

GTEMP.DAT           Global Temp. Series (1880-1987)
                    (1) Hansen-Lebedeff (land-based)
                    (2) IPCC Data (land and marine)
                    (3) Jones Data (global land and marine)

Hansen, J. and Lebedeff, S. (1987) Global Trends of Measured 
Surface Air Temperature.  J. Geophys. Res. 92, 13345-72.

Hansen, J. and Lebedeff, S. (1988) Global Surface Air Temps: Update
through 1987.  J. Geophys. Lett.  15, 323-326.

Folland, et. al. (1990)  Observed Climatic Variations and Change. 
In Climate Change:  The IPCC Scientific Assessment, J.T. Houghton,
et. al. editors, Cambridge University Press.

Jones, P.D. et. al. (1986).  Northern Hemispheric Surface Air  
Temperatures:1851-1984.  J. Clim Appl Meterol 25, 161-179.

Jones, P.D. (1986). Southern Hemispheric Surface Air Temperatures:
1851-1984. J. Clim. Appl. Meterol. 25, 1213-1230


Jones, P.D. (1986).  Global Temperature Variations Between
1861-1984. Nature 322, 430-434.


ICE.DAT             Global Ice Volume (440K-0 yrs BP, 220 Values)
                    (1) Oxygen-18

Newton, H.J. and G.R. North (1991). Forecasting global ice volume.
J. Time Series Analysis, 12, 255-265.

INFL.DAT            Pneumonia and Influenza Deaths (1968-1978)
                    (1) Monthly Flu Deaths (132)

Shumway, R.H. and M.J. Katzoff (1992) Nonlinear and non Gaussian
modeling using state space models with a hidden Markov Structure. 
Tech. Report #240, Division of Statistics, U.C. Davis

J&J.DAT             Johnson & Johnson quarterly earnings per share.

LOWLA508.DAT        LA Pollution-Mortality Study (1970-1979,6-day)
                    (1) Total Mortality
                    (2) Respiratory Mortality
                    (3) Cardiovascular Mortality
                    (4) Temperature
                    (5) Relative Humidity
                    (6) Carbon Monoxide
                    (7) Sulfur Dioxide
                    (8) Nitrogen Dioxide
                    (9) Hydrocarbons
                   (10) Ozone
                   (11) Particulates

Shumway, R.H., A.S. Azari and Y. Pawitan (1988). Modeling mortality
fluctuations in Los Angeles as functions of pollution and weather
effects.  Environmental Research, 45, 224-241.

MASS2.DAT           Glacial Sediment Deposits (11,833-11,200 BP)
                    (1) Varve Number (3767-4400)
                    (2) Varves (634) from Massachusetts

Shumway, R.H. and K.L. Verosub (1992). State Space Modeling of
Paleoclimatic Time Series. Proceed. 5th International Meeting on
Statistical Climatology, Toronto, 22-26 June, 1992.

OIL.DAT             Gas and Oil Prices (July, 1973 to Dec., 1987)
                    (1) Monthly Gas Prices
                    (2) Monthly Oil Prices

Liu, L.M. (1991). Dynamic relationship analysis of U.S. gasoline
and crude oil prices. J. of Forecasting, 10, 521-547.



RAINFLOW.DAT        Tree-Ring River Flows and Rainfall, 360 years
                    (1602-1961)
                    
                    (1) Year
                    (2) Sacramento River Flow
                    (3) American River Flow
                    (4) Feather River Flow
                    (5) Yuba River Flow
                    (6) Overall Index
                    (7) Sacramento Rainfall

Earle, C.J. and H.C. Fritts (1986). Reconstructing riverflow in the
Sacramento River Basin since 1560.  Laboratory of Tree-Ring
Research, University of Arizon, Tucson, Arizona.

SALES.DAT           Sales Data With Leading Indicator (150 mo.)
                    (1) Sales
                    (2) Leading Indicator

Box, G.P.E. and G.M. Jenkins (1970). Time Series Analysis
Forecasting and Control.  San Francisco: Holden-Day.