Daily air pollution and death rate data for Chicago
A data frame with 7 columns and 5114 rows; each row refers to one day; the columns correspond to:
total deaths (per day).
median particles in 2.5-10 per cubic m
median particles < 2.5 mg per cubic m (more dangerous).
Ozone in parts per billion
Median Sulpher dioxide measurement
time in days
temperature in fahrenheit
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.
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 <U+2019>GAMs: An introduction with R<U+2019>. R package version 1.0.2