leukDat: Childhood leukemia in the former GDR

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Childhood leukemia in the former GDR

Description

In this example we present data from the former East Germany within the time period from 1980 to 1989. The data are taken from the cancer atlas of the former East Germany (Moehner et al. 1994). The data provided the regional distribution of childhood leukemia in the former East Germany.

Usage

data("leukDat")

References

Schlattmann, P.(2009) Medical Applications of Finite Mixture Models. Berlin: Springer.

Examples

## disease mapping example
data(leukDat)
data(GDRmap) # this is the map of the former GDR
mix.leuk <- mixalg(obs = "oleuk", pop.at.risk = "eleuk",
                   data = leukDat, family = "poisson")
mix.leuk
plot(GDRmap, col = mix.leuk@classification)          

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