% agricultural data on 24,473 zip code areas % land usage and animal inventories % variables are: % col1 = latitude centroid % col2 = longitude centroid % col3 = zip code % col4 = state code, 1 to 48 alphabetical order % col5 = acres harvested, total farms % col6 = acres in Conservation Reserve or Wetlands Reserve Programs total farms % col7 = acres of Cropland idle, total farms % col8 = pasture, Cropland used for pasture or grazing total farms % col9 = rangeland, Pasture and rangeland other than cropland or woodland pastured total farms % col10 = woodland, Total woodland total farms % col11 = soilimprove, Cropland in cover crops legumes and soil improvement % grasses not harvested and not pastured total farms % col12 = failed, Cropland on which all crops failed total farms % col13 = fallow, Cropland in cultivated summer fallow total farms % col14 = otherland, All other land total farms % col15 = farms, all farms % col16 = farms_small, 1 to 49 acres % col17 = farms_medium, 50 to 999 acres % col18 = farms_large, 1000 acres or more % col19 = beef_cows, Beef cow inventory total farms % col20 = milk_cows, Milk cow inventory total farms % col21 = hogs_pigs, Hogs and pigs inventory total farms % col22 = sheep_lambs, Sheep and lambs inventory total farms % col23 = hens_pullets, Hens & pullets laying age inventory total farms % col24 = horses_ponies, Horses and ponies of all ages inventory total farms % col25 = owner, Full owners % col26 = pop, total zip-code area population % col27 = rural_pop, population census classified as rural % col28 = farm_pop, population census classified as farm load agriculture.data; vnames = strvcat('harvested','constant','conservation','idle','pasture','rangeland', ... 'woodland','soilimprove','failed','fallow','otherland','farms','beef_cows','milk_cows', ... 'hogs_pigs','sheep_lambs','hens_pullets','horses_ponies','owner','rural_pop','farm_pop'); latt = agriculture(:,1); long = agriculture(:,2); zip = agriculture(:,3); st_code = agriculture(:,4); xdata = [agriculture(:,5:15) agriculture(:,19:end-4) agriculture(:,end-2:end)]; % pitches farms_small, farms_medium, farms_large and pop tmp = xdata(:,1:10); acres = sum(tmp'); total_acres = acres'; % find non-zero total acres zip-code areas nzip = find(total_acres > 0); dat = xdata(nzip,:); y = log(dat(:,1)+1); % acres harvested, add unity to avoid log(0) n = length(y); xtmp = dat(:,2:end); xmat = log(xtmp + ones(size(xtmp))); % add unity to avoid log(0) x = [ones(n,1) xmat ]; [nobs nvars] = size(x); result = ols(y,x); prt(result,vnames);