mortality: Mortality in US Cities

In jdmR-packages/czerlinski1999: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

Description

Predict the mortality rate in 20 U.S. cities given the average January temperature, pollution level, and percentage of nonwhites, etc.

Usage

mortality

Format

A data frame with 60 observations (rows) and 16 variables (columns):

prec

An integer column with average annual precipitation (in inches)

jan_temp

An integer column with the average January temperature (F)

jul_temp

An integer column with the average July temperature (F)

over_65

A numeric column with the percent of 1960 SMSA population aged 65 or older (Percent: 0 - 100)

household

A numeric column with the average household size

educ

A numeric column with the median school yers completed by those over 22

hous

A numeric column with the percent of housing unites which are sound and with all facilities (Percent: 0 -100)

dens

An integer column with population per sq. mile in urbanized areas, 1960

non_white

A numeric column with the percent non-white population in urbanized areas, 1960 (Percent: 0 -100)

white_collar

A numeric column with the percent occupaitions that are white collar (Percent: 0 - 100)

poor

A numeric column with the percent of households with less than $3000 in annual income (Percent: 0 -100)

hc

An integer column with the relative hydrocarbon pollution potential

nox

An integer column with the relative nitric oxides potential

so

An integer column with the relative sulphur dioxide

humid

An integer column with the annual average percent relatve humidity at 1 pm (Percent: 0 -100)

mort

A numeric column with the total age-adjusted mortality rate per 100,000

Source

McDonald, G. C, & Schwing, R. C. (1973). Instabilities of regression estimates relating air pollution to mortality. Technometrics, 15, 463—482; This data and its summary is pulled from StatLib: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/pollution

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