pmdat {SCCS}

Data on asthma admissions and air pollution

Description

The data are a daily time series of hospital admissions for asthma in Nottingham, with levels (in micrograms per cubic metre) of particulate matter less than 10 micrometres in diameter (PM10 levels).

Usage

pmdat

Format

A data frame containing 2922 rows and 3 columns. The column names are 'day' (day of observation, 1 to 2922), 'asma' (number of asthma admissions on that day), and 'pm10' (PM10 level on that day). The data are in time series format, for SCCS analysis using generalised linear models.

References

Farrington, C. P. and Whitaker H. J. (2006). Semiparametric analysis of case series data (with discussion). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C 55 (5), 553-594.