table.b15 {MPV}

Table B15 - Air Pollution and Mortality Data

Description

The table.b15 data frame has 60 observations on the mortality, environment, and demographic variables for a sample of American cities.

Usage

data(table.b15)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

City

character vector

Mort

numeric vector, age-adjusted mortality from all causes per 100000

Precip

numeric vector, precipitation in inches

Educ

numeric vector, median number of school years completed

Nonwhite

numeric vector, percentage of 1960 population that is nonwhite

Nox

numeric vector, relative pollution potential of nitrous oxides

SO2

numeric vector, relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide

Source

Montgomery, D.C., Peck, E.A., and Vining, C.G. (2021) Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis. 6th Edition, John Wiley and Sons.

References

McDonald, G. C. and Ayers, J.A. [1978], "Some applications of Chernuff faces: A technique for graphically representing multivariate data", in Graphical Representation of Multivariate Data, Academic Press, New York.

Examples

data(table.b15)
pairs(table.b15[,-1])