ex1123: Air Pollution and Mortality
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Description
Does pollution kill people? Data in one early study designed to
explore this issue from 5 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in
the U.S between 1959–1961.
Usage
1
Format
A data frame with 60 observations on the following 7 variables.
Citya character vector indicating the city
Morttotal age-adjusted mortality from all causes
Precipmean annual precipitation (inches)
Educmedian number of school years completed for
persons 25 years or older
Nonwhitepercentage of population that is nonwhite
NOxrelative pollution potential of oxides of nitrogen
SO2relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.
References
McDonald, G.C. and Ayers, J.A. (1978). Some Applications of the
“Chernoff Faces”: A Technique for Graphically Representing
Multivariate Data in Wang, P.C.C. (ed.) Graphical
Representation of Multivariate Data, Academic Press.
See Also
Examples
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Example output
'data.frame': 60 obs. of 7 variables:
$ City : chr "San Jose, CA" "Wichita, KS" "San Diego, CA" "Lancaster, PA" ...
$ Mort : num 791 824 840 844 858 ...
$ Precip : num 13 28 10 43 25 35 60 11 31 15 ...
$ Educ : num 12.2 12.1 12.1 9.5 12.1 ...
$ Nonwhite: num 3 7.5 5.9 2.9 2 ...
$ NOx : num 32 2 66 7 11 1 1 319 3 8 ...
$ SO2 : num 3 1 20 32 26 1 1 130 10 28 ...
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Description Usage Format Source References See Also Examples
Description
Does pollution kill people? Data in one early study designed to explore this issue from 5 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the U.S between 1959–1961.
Usage
1 |
Format
A data frame with 60 observations on the following 7 variables.
Citya character vector indicating the city
Morttotal age-adjusted mortality from all causes
Precipmean annual precipitation (inches)
Educmedian number of school years completed for persons 25 years or older
Nonwhitepercentage of population that is nonwhite
NOxrelative pollution potential of oxides of nitrogen
SO2relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.
References
McDonald, G.C. and Ayers, J.A. (1978). Some Applications of the “Chernoff Faces”: A Technique for Graphically Representing Multivariate Data in Wang, P.C.C. (ed.) Graphical Representation of Multivariate Data, Academic Press.
See Also
Examples
1 |
Example output
'data.frame': 60 obs. of 7 variables:
$ City : chr "San Jose, CA" "Wichita, KS" "San Diego, CA" "Lancaster, PA" ...
$ Mort : num 791 824 840 844 858 ...
$ Precip : num 13 28 10 43 25 35 60 11 31 15 ...
$ Educ : num 12.2 12.1 12.1 9.5 12.1 ...
$ Nonwhite: num 3 7.5 5.9 2.9 2 ...
$ NOx : num 32 2 66 7 11 1 1 319 3 8 ...
$ SO2 : num 3 1 20 32 26 1 1 130 10 28 ...
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