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Pollution and Mortality
Description
Complete data set for problem introduced in ex1123
.
Data from early study designed to explore the relationship between air
pollution and mortality.
Usage
ex1217
Format
A data frame with 60 observations on the following 17 variables.
- CITY
a character vector indicating the city
- Mortality
total age-adjusted mortality from all causes
- Precip
mean annual precipitation (inches)
- Humidity
percent relative humidity (annual average at 1:00pm)
- JanTemp
mean January temperature (degrees F)
- JulyTemp
mean July temperature (degrees F)
- Over65
percentage of the population aged 65 years or over
- House
population per household
- Educ
median number of school years completed for persons 25 years or older
- Sound
percentage of the housing that is sound with all facilities
- Density
population density (in persons per square mile of urbanized area)
- NonWhite
percentage of population that is nonwhite
- WhiteCol
percentage of employment in white collar occupations
- Poor
percentage of households with annual income under
\$
3,000 in 1960- HC
relative pollution potential of hydrocarbons
- NOX
relative pollution potential of oxides of nitrogen
- SO2
relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide
Source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.
References
McDonald, G.C. and Ayers, J.A. (1978). Some Applications of the “Chernoff Faces”: A Technique for Graphically Representing Multivariate Data in Wang, P.C.C. (ed.) Graphical Representation of Multivariate Data, Academic Press.
See Also
Examples
str(ex1217)