air_polution_mortality_df: Air Pollution and Mortality

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Air Pollution and Mortality

Description

This dataset, air_polution_mortality_df, is a data frame containing information from an early study exploring the relationship between air pollution and mortality across 5 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the U.S. between 1959 and 1961.

Usage

data(air_polution_mortality_df)

Format

A data frame with 60 observations and 7 variables:

City

Metropolitan area (factor with 60 levels)

Mort

Mortality rate (numeric vector)

Precip

Annual precipitation in inches (integer vector)

Educ

Median years of education (numeric vector)

NonWhite

Percentage of non-white population (numeric vector)

NOX

Nitrogen oxide concentration (integer vector)

SO2

Sulfur dioxide concentration (integer vector)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'air_polution_mortality_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the PulmoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data taken from the Sleuth3 package version 1.0-6

PulmoDataSets documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:41 p.m.