wacancer: Cancer in Western Australia

wacancerR Documentation

Cancer in Western Australia

Description

Diagnoses of cancer in Western Australia for males and females in 1996

Usage

data(wacancer)

Format

A data frame with 14 observations on the following 3 variables.

Cancer

the type of cancer; a factor with levels Prostate, Breast, Colorectal, Lung, Melanoma, Cervix, and Other

Gender

the gender; a factor with levels M (males) and F (females)

Counts

the number of people in the designated category; a numeric vector

Details

The data gives the number of diagnoses of the designated cancers in Western Australia in 1996.

Source

Health Department of Western Australia Annual Report 1997/1998—health of Western Australians—mortality and survival. Published on the internet http://www.health.wa.gov.au/Publications/annualreport_9798/, accessed 19~September 2001.

Examples

data(wacancer)
summary(wacancer)

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