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New November Entry from Scott Wise's Blog: Is Urban Living Making My Allergies Worse? (Featuring JMP Graphing and Model Simulation)
Editor’s Note: This monthly blog from Scott Wise, JMP Principal Engineer, seeks to find interesting uses of statistical discovery to solve deep questions dealing with business/economics, sports, history, health and psychology.
Is Urban Living Making My Allergies Worse? (Featuring JMP Graphing and Model Simulation)
Summary:
Arriving with the fall allergy seasons are a ton of articles predicting increasing allergy misery. One of the main reasons always cited is our increased urbanization. My home city of Austin, Texas is particularly cited as being one of the worst places for allergies. So maybe we should all pack our bags and head out of the city! However, I always identified with Eva Gabor’s character Lisa Douglas in Green Acres who sang in the opening theme song, “New York is where I'd rather stay, I get allergic smelling hay.” So we will turn to statistical exploration to help answer this question!
Data, Scripts and Source:
Links to the scripted JMP worktable and source data can be found on the JMP Technical Reference Library at:
D59 Allergy Urbanization JMP Graphing & Model Simulation
Why Good:
- Good public data set from the CDC showing Allergy Trends for children for a seventeen year period with many ways to explore the data (by urbanization, regions and sub-regions, age groups, etc.
- Features advanced use of JMP Graph Builder to create Overlaid Trend Charts with Confidence Interval Bounds and to create data density Contour Plots
- Features use of JMP Regression Modeling with Variable Importance to test for factor importance
