eba1977: Lung cancer incidence in four Danish cities 1968-1971
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This data set contains counts of incident lung cancer cases and population size in four neighbouring Danish cities by age group.

eba1977

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 4 variables:

city: a factor with levels Fredericia, Horsens, Kolding, and Vejle.
age: a factor with levels 40-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, and 75+.
pop: a numeric vector, number of inhabitants.
cases: a numeric vector, number of lung cancer cases.

These data were “at the center of public interest in Denmark in 1974”, according to Erling Andersen's paper. The city of Fredericia has a substantial petrochemical industry in the harbour area.

E.B. Andersen (1977), Multiplicative Poisson models with unequal cell rates, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4:153–158.

J. Clemmensen et al. (1974), Ugeskrift for Læger, pp. 2260–2268.

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