kmprioliprof/mat_8444_final_project

Disposable Income, Debt, and Savings: Q1 1980 through Q3 2018 (final project for MAT 8444)

title	author	date	output
README	Katherine M. Prioli	May 08, 2019	html_document

Purpose

This repo contains the data, full source code, final report, and slides for my MAT 8444 final project. The objective of this project was to analyze US household real per-capita disposable income, debt service payments, and personal savings over time, to understand trends in personal disposable income, and to determine whether savings can accurately be predicted from debt.

Contents

The repo is organized as follows:

Content	Description
data	Subdirectory containing source datasets
MAT_8444_Final_Project.Rproj	.Rproj project container
Prioli_Final_Proj.Rmd	Notebook containing source code and report
Prioli_Final_Proj.pdf	Knitted notebook
Prioli_Final_Proj.pptx	Presentation slides

Data Sources

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2019. "Real Disposable Personal Income: Per Capita." https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0Q048SBEA
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2019. "Household Debt Service Payments as a Percent of Disposable Personal Income." https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TDSP
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 2019. "Personal Saving as a Percentage of Disposable Personal Income." https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A072RC1Q156SBEA

mat_8444_final_project's Issues

Can't add titles to `checkresiduals()` output (need to add fig. number)

Can't add +ggtitle("Text"), can't pass , main = "Text".