| chicago {simsl} | R Documentation |
Air pollution dataset
Description
Daily air pollution and death rate data for Chicago
Format
A data frame with 7 columns and 5114 rows; each row refers to one day; the columns correspond to:
- death
total deaths (per day).
- pm10median
median particles in 2.5-10 per cubic m
- pm25median
median particles < 2.5 mg per cubic m (more dangerous).
- o3median
Ozone in parts per billion
- so2median
Median Sulpher dioxide measurement
- time
time in days
- tmpd
temperature in fahrenheit
Details
The data are from Peng and Welty (2004) and are available from R (R Core Team, 2019) package gamair (Wood, 2019).
The daily death in the city of Chicago is recorded over a number of years (about 14 years). Each observation is a time series of daily mortality counts, indicating the number of deaths that occurred on each day.
Source
The chicago dataset is available from package gamair (Wood, 2019).
References
Peng, R.D. and Welty, L.J. (2004) The NMMAPSdata package. R News 4(2)
Wood, S.N. (2017) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R
Wood, S.N. (2019) gamair: Data for ’GAMs: An introduction with R’. R package version 1.0.2