balt {tsModel}

Baltimore City data

Description

Mortality, air pollution, and weather data for Baltimore City, Maryland, USA, 1987–2000.

Usage

data(balt)

Format

A data frame with 15342 observations on the following 20 variables.

cvd

daily counts of deaths from cardiovascular disease

death

daily counts of deaths from all causes excluding accident

resp

daily counts of deaths from respiratory disease

tmpd

daily average temperature (Fahrenheit)

rmtmpd

daily running mean of temperature for lags 1–3

dptp

daily average dew point temperature

rmdptp

daily running mean of dew point temperature for lags 1–3

time

day/time indicator

date

date

agecat

a factor with levels under65 65to74 75p

dow

a factor with levels Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

pm10tmean

daily detrended PM10

l1pm10tmean

lag 1 PM10

l2pm10tmean

lag 2 PM10

l3pm10tmean

lag 3 PM10

l4pm10tmean

lag 4 PM10

l5pm10tmean

lag 5 PM10

l6pm10tmean

lag 6 PM10

l7pm10tmean

lag 7 PM10

Age2Ind

indicator for age category 2 (65 to 74)

Age3Ind

indicator for age category 3 (75 and above)

Source

Samet, Jonathan M., Scott L. Zeger, Francesca Dominici, Frank Curriero, Ivan Coursac, Douglas W. Dockery, Joel Schwartz, and Antonella Zanobetti. "The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study." (2000).