Milanmortdata {refitME} | R Documentation |
The Milan mortality data set
Description
The Milanmortdata
data frame has data on 3652 consecutive days (10 consecutive years: 1st January, 1980 to 30th December, 1989) for the city of Milan, Italy. Note that this data set was originally contained and available from the now discontinued SemiPar R-package. With the permission of Matt Wand we have made these data (now called Milanmortdata) available in the refitME R-package.
Usage
Milanmortdata
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- day.num
number of days since 31st December, 1979.
- day.of.week
1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, 3 = Wednesday, 4 = Thursday, 5 = Friday, 6 = Saturday, 7 = Sunday.
- holiday
indicator of public holiday: 1 = public holiday, 0 = otherwise.
- mean.temp
mean daily temperature in degrees Celcius.
- rel.humid
relative humidity.
- tot.mort
total number of deaths.
- resp.mort
total number of respiratory deaths.
- SO2
measure of sulphur dioxide level in ambient air.
- TSP
total suspended particles in ambient air.
Source
Vigotti, M.A., Rossi, G., Bisanti, L., Zanobetti, A. and Schwartz, J. (1996). Short term effect of urban air pollution on respiratory health in Milan, Italy, 1980-1989. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 50, S71-S75.
References
Ruppert, D., Wand, M.P. and Carroll, R.J. (2003). Semiparametric Regression Cambridge University Press.
Examples
# Load the data.
data(Milanmortdata)
pairs(Milanmortdata, pch = ".")