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Milan mortality data
Description
The milan.mort data frame has data on 3652 consecutive
days (10 consecutive years: 1st January, 1980 to
30th December, 1989) for the city of Milan, Italy.
Usage
data(milan.mort)Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- day.num
number of days since 31st December, 1979
- day.of.week
1=Monday,2=Tuesday,3=Wednesday,4=Thursday, 5=Friday,6=Saturday,7=Sunday.
- holiday
indicator of public holiday: 1=public holiday, 0=otherwise.
- mean.temp
mean daily temperature in degrees Celcius.
- rel.humid
relative humidity.
- tot.mort
total number of deaths.
- resp.mort
total number of respiratory deaths.
- SO2
measure of sulphur dioxide level in ambient air.
- TSP
total suspended particles in ambient air.
Source
Vigotti, M.A., Rossi, G., Bisanti, L., Zanobetti, A. and Schwartz, J. (1996). Short term effect of urban air pollution on respiratory health in Milan, Italy, 1980-1989. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50, S71-S75.
References
Ruppert, D., Wand, M.P. and Carroll, R.J. (2003)
Semiparametric Regression Cambridge University Press.
http://stat.tamu.edu/~carroll/semiregbook/
Examples
library(SemiPar)
data(milan.mort)
pairs(milan.mort,pch=".")