ex1123

Does pollution kill people? Data in one early study designed to
 explore this issue from 5 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas in
 the U.S between 1959--1961.

datasets

Data sets from Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013), "The
Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd
ed)", Cengage Learning.

Berwin Turlach

Sleuth3

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd
Ed)"

ex1123 function

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 7 variables.<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>City</dt><dd>a character vector indicating the city</dd>
 <dt>Mort</dt><dd>total age-adjusted mortality from all causes</dd>
 <dt>Precip</dt><dd>mean annual precipitation (inches)</dd> 
 <dt>Educ</dt><dd>median number of school years completed for
 persons 25 years or older</dd> 
 <dt>NonWhite</dt><dd>percentage of population that is nonwhite</dd>
 <dt>NOX</dt><dd>relative pollution potential of oxides of nitrogen</dd>
 <dt>SO2</dt><dd>relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide</dd>
 </dl>

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Air Pollution and Mortality — ex1123

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 7 variables.<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>City</dt><dd>a character vector indicating the city</dd>
 <dt>Mort</dt><dd>total age-adjusted mortality from all causes</dd>
 <dt>Precip</dt><dd>mean annual precipitation (inches)</dd> 
 <dt>Educ</dt><dd>median number of school years completed for
 persons 25 years or older</dd> 
 <dt>NonWhite</dt><dd>percentage of population that is nonwhite</dd>
 <dt>NOX</dt><dd>relative pollution potential of oxides of nitrogen</dd>
 <dt>SO2</dt><dd>relative pollution potential of sulfur dioxide</dd>
 </dl>

ex1123: Air Pollution and Mortality

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