chicago {gamair}R Documentation

Chicago air pollution and death rate data

Description

Daily air pollution and death rate data for Chicago.

Usage

data(chicago)

Format

A data frame with 7 columns and 5114 rows. Each row refers to one day. The columns are:

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

See the NMMAPSdata package for fuller details. Note that there are missing values in some fields.

Source

Roger D. Peng, Leah J. Welty and Aiden McDermott. R package NMMAPSdata.

References

Peng, R.D. and Welty, L.J. (2004) The NMMAPSdata package. R News 4(2).

Wood, S.N. (2006) Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R

http://www.ihapss.jhsph.edu/data/NMMAPS/R/


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