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Ligntmonth

Relationship between damage reports and deaths caused by lightning

Data for Exercise 2.6

Ligntmonth

A data frame/tibble with 12 observations on four variables

month: a factor with levels 1/01/2000, 10/01/2000, 11/01/2000, 12/01/2000, 2/01/2000, 3/01/2000, 4/01/2000, 5/01/2000, 6/01/2000, 7/01/2000, 8/01/2000, and 9/01/2000
deaths: number of deaths due to lightning strikes
injuries: number of injuries due to lightning strikes
damage: damage due to lightning strikes (in dollars)

Lighting Fatalities, Injuries and Damage Reports in the United States, 1959-1994, NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR-193, Dept. of Commerce.

Kitchens, L. J. (2003) Basic Statistics and Data Analysis. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning.

plot(deaths ~ damage, data = Ligntmonth)
model = lm(deaths ~ damage, data = Ligntmonth)
abline(model, col = "red")
rm(model)

Basic Statistics and Data Analysis

v1.2.0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Alan T. Arnholt [aut, cre], Ben Evans [aut]

Initial release

2017-07-29