monitor.mercury {SemiPar}

Mercury biomonintoring data

Description

The monitor.mercury data frame has 22 observations from sampling locations around a solid waste incinerator in Warren County, New Jersey, USA

Usage

data(monitor.mercury)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

UTM.North

longitude of sampling location.

UTM.East

latitude of sampling location.

mercury.concentration

mercury concentration in dry sphagnum moss grown at the sampling location.

Source

Opsomer, J.D., Agras, J., Carpi, A. and Rodrigues, G. (1995), An application of locally weighted regression to airborne mercury deposition around an incinerator site, Environmetrics, 6, 205-221.

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(monitor.mercury)
pairs(monitor.mercury)