Description Usage Format References
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.
1 |
A data frame with 71 rows and 2 variables:
The measured lead concentration in the tap water in parts per billion (ppb = mg/L) as now also made explicit using the units
package.
Logical indicating if the observations was removed by the authorities or not. In total two observations were removed as explained in the 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
Add the following code to your website.
For more information on customizing the embed code, read Embedding Snippets.