CVDdaily: Daily cardiovascular deaths in Los Angeles, 1987-2000
In season: Seasonal analysis of health data

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Daily number of deaths from cardiovascular disease in people aged 75 and over in Los Angeles for the years 1987 to 2000.

1	data(CVDdaily)

A data frame with 5114 observations on the following 16 variables.

date: date of death in date format (year-month-day)
cvd: daily number of CVD deaths
dow: day of the week (character)
tmpd: daily mean temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)
o3mean: daily mean ozone (parts per billion)
o3tmean: daily trimmed mean ozone (parts per billion)
Mon: indicator variable for Monday
Tue: indicator variable for Tuesday
Wed: indicator variable for Wednesday
Thu: indicator variable for Thursday
Fri: indicator variable for Friday
Sat: indicator variable for Saturday
month: month (integer from 1 to 12)
winter: indicator variable for winter
spring: indicator variable for spring
summer: indicator variable for summer
autumn: indicator variable for autumn

From the NMMAPS study (http://www.ihapss.jhsph.edu/), also available via the NMMAPSlite R library.

Samet JM, Dominici F, Zeger SL, Schwartz J, Dockery DW (2000). The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study, Part I: Methods and Methodologic Issues. Research Report 94, Health Effects Institute, Cambridge MA.

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data(CVDdaily)
plot(CVDdaily$date, CVDdaily$cvd, type='p', xlab='Date',
     ylab='Number of CVD deaths')

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