flint: Water Monitoring Sample from Flint, Michigan, 2015

Description Usage Format References

Description

The data correspond to the original January as well as the revised June version of the 2015 "Lead and Copper Report and Consumer Notice of Lead Result" report. Data are taken from the sources stated below, not the original report. Note that a lead level of zero means that the measurement was below the detection limit.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 71 rows and 2 variables:

lead

The measured lead concentration in the tap water in parts per billion (ppb = mg/L) as now also made explicit using the units package.

exclude

Logical indicating if the observations was removed by the authorities or not. In total two observations were removed as explained in the references.

References

Langkjær-Bain, R. (2017), The murky tale of Flint's deceptive water data. Significance, 14: 16–21. https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01016.x.

Quantiles and the Flint water crisis (2017), Wicklin, R, http://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2017/05/17/quantiles-flint-water-crisis.html

Youtube video by Michigan Radio explaining the computation of the quantile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pql00zr700

Beware the Argument: The Flint Water Crisis and Quantiles (2016), Höhle M, https://staff.math.su.se/hoehle/blog/2017/06/18/quantiles.html


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