| London.Mortality {bsamGP} | R Documentation |
Daily Moratlity in London
Description
The London.Mortality data consists of daily death occurrences from Jan. 1st, 1993 to Dec. 31st, 2006 and corresponding weather observations including temperature and humidity in London.
Usage
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A data frame with 5113 observations on the following 7 variables.
- date
date in YYYY-MM-DD.
- tmean
Mean temperature.
- tmin
Minimum dry-bulb temperature.
- tmax
Maximum dry-bulb temperature.
- dewp
Dew point.
- rh
Relative humidity.
- death
the number of death occurences.
Source
Office for National Statistics
British Atmospheric Data Centre
https://github.com/gasparrini/2015_gasparrini_Lancet_Rcodedata
References
Armstrong BG, Chalabi Z, Fenn B, Hajat S, Kovats S, Milojevic A, Wilkinson P (2011). Association of mortality with high temperatures in a temperate climate: England and Wales. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 65(4), 340–345.
Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Kovats S, Wilkinson P (2012). The effect of high temperatures on cause-specific mortality in England and Wales. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 69(1), 56–61.
Gasparrini A, Guo Y, Hashizume M, Lavigne E, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Tobias A, Tong S, Rocklöv J, Forsberg B, et al.(2015). Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study. The Lancet, 386(9991), 369-375.
Examples
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