CVD {season}R Documentation

Cardiovascular deaths in Los Angeles, 1987–2000

Description

Monthly number of deaths from cardiovascular disease in people aged 75 and over in Los Angeles for the years 1987 to 2000.

Usage

data(CVD)

Format

A data frame with 168 observations on the following 7 variables.

year
year of death
month
month of death
yrmon
a combination of year and month: year+(month-1)/12
cvd
monthly number of CVD deaths
tmpd
mean monthly temperature (degrees Fahrenheit)
pop
Los Angeles population aged 75+ in the year 2000
ndaysmonth
number of days in each month (used as an offset)

Source

From the NMMAPS study (http://www.ihapss.jhsph.edu/), also available via the NMMAPSlite R library.

References

Samet JM, Dominici F, Zeger SL, Schwartz J, Dockery DW (2000). The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study, Part I: Methods and Methodologic Issues. Research Report 94, Health Effects Institute, Cambridge MA.

Examples

data(CVD)
plot(CVD$yrmon,CVD$cvd,type='o',xlab='Date',ylab='Number of CVD deaths')

[Package season version 0.2-3 Index]