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chicago: Air pollution dataset

Description

Daily air pollution and death rate data for Chicago

Arguments

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.

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 <U+2019>GAMs: An introduction with R<U+2019>. R package version 1.0.2