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title: "Precipitation dataset description"
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date: '2022-01-13'
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```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
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## Dataset description

**Precipitation dataset**


### Description

Binary indicators of precipitation at p = 92 weather stations across four states in the Midwest region of the U.S. The four states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. Variables are the postal codes for the respective weather stations.

### Ground Truth

An undirected "Ground Truth" was obtained by Delaunay triangulation to the geographic layout.

### Sources 

- Rina Foygel Barber. Mathias Drton. "High-dimensional Ising model selection with Bayesian information criteria." Electron. J. Statist. 9 (1) 567 - 607, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-EJS1012


- Menne, M. J., Williams Jr., C. N. and Vose, R. S. (2011). United States Historical Climatology Network Daily Temperature, Precipitation, and Snow Data

