Kim P. Huynh and David T. Jacho, "Firm Size Distributions Through the Lens
of Functional Principal Components Analysis", Journal of Applied
Econometrics, Vol. 25, No. 7, 2010, pp. 1211-1214.

All files are ASCII files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file
hj-files.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a".

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## Data ##
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o File: hj.csv
  Format: comma-separated values (with row names)
  Source: Geroski, Lazarova, Urga and Walters (2003)
  URL: http://www.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2003-v18.1/geroski-lazarova-urga-walters/
  Info: The original contribution has the data in some raw format
        (provided there as gluw.data) which has been processed to hj.csv.
        The corresponding code is linked below. More details can be
        found in the readme file of the original archive entry.

Note: No other data are used

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## Software ##
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o File: bw1.R
  Format: R transcript (source code with comments)
  Application: Bandwidths calculations for Unbalanced Panel (UP).
  Info: The code calculates cross-validated bandwidths for the UP in 
    	the paper.
    
o File: bw3.R
  Format: R transcript (source code with comments)
  Application: Bandwidths calculations for Balanced Panel (BP).
  Info: The code calculates cross-validated bandwidths for the BP in 
    	the paper.

o File: prog_Boot_1.R
  Format: R transcript (source code with comments)
  Application: FPCA calculations for Unbalanced Panel (UP).
  Info: The code uses the ".Rdata" object created by 'bw1.R'
	to perform all the FPCA calculations for the UP.
    
o File: prog_Boot_3.R
  Format: R transcript (source code with comments)
  Application: FPCA calculations for Balanced Panel (BP).
  Info: The code uses the ".Rdata" object created by 'bw3.R'
	to perform all the FPCA calculations for the BP.

o The software packages used to obtain the results were:
  - R system for statistical computing, version 2.9.0
    http://CRAN.R-project.org/
  - foreign 0.8-40
    http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=foreign
  - hdrcde 2.13,
    http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=hdrcde
  - np 0.30-4
    http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=np