ewrates: Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total...

ewratesR Documentation

Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

Description

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer, and all causes 1936 - 1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in order to accomodate follow up for the nickel study.

Usage

data(ewrates)

Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

id: Subject identifier (numeric)
year Calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40, ...
age Age class: 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ...
lung Lung cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
nasal Nasal cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
other All cause mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.

Source

From Breslow and Day, Vol II, Appendix IX.

Examples

data(ewrates)
str(ewrates)

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