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Daily air pollution and death rate data for Chicago
A data frame with 7 columns and 5114 rows; each row refers to one day; the columns correspond to:
total deaths (per day).
median particles in 2.5-10 per cubic m
median particles < 2.5 mg per cubic m (more dangerous).
Ozone in parts per billion
Median Sulpher dioxide measurement
time in days
temperature in fahrenheit
The data are from Peng and Welty (2004) and are available from R (R Core Team, 2019) package gamair
(Wood, 2019).
The daily death in the city of Chicago is recorded over a number of years (about 14 years). Each observation is a time series of daily mortality counts, indicating the number of deaths that occurred on each day.
The chicago
dataset is available from package gamair
(Wood, 2019).
Peng, R.D. and Welty, L.J. (2004) The NMMAPSdata package. R News 4(2)
Wood, S.N. (2017) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R
Wood, S.N. (2019) gamair: Data for ’GAMs: An introduction with R’. R package version 1.0.2
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