toxins.and.cancer: Toxins and Cancer

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Description

This data set contains informaion on the volume of toxic chemicals released in each state during 2006, deaths from cancer during 2008, and the surface area of each state.

Usage

data(toxins.and.cancer)

Format

A data frame with 41 observations on the following 15 variables.

State

a factor with levels Alabama Alaska Arizona ...

total_toxic_chemicals

a numeric vector

total_on_site

a numeric vector

air_on_site

a numeric vector

other_on_site

a numeric vector

off_site

a numeric vector

Surface_Area

a numeric vector

new_total

a numeric vector

new_breast

a numeric vector

new_lung

a numeric vector

deaths_total

a numeric vector

deaths_breast

a numeric vector

deaths_lung

a numeric vector

Population

a numeric vector

State_Abbrev

a factor with levels AK, AL, AR ...

Details

This data is used as an example in the book "R in a Nutshell," from O'Reilly Media.

Source

This data was taken from several tables in the Statistical Abstract of the United States. You can download this data from http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab

Examples

data(toxins.and.cancer)
attach(toxins.and.cancer)
plot(total_toxic_chemicals/Surface_Area,deaths_total/Population)
plot(air_on_site/Surface_Area,deaths_lung/Population)

Example output

Loading required package: nutshell.bbdb
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