LungCa: Years of Smoking and Lung Cancer Deaths in Men.

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Years of Smoking and Lung Cancer Deaths in Men.

Description

Data on man-years of risk and observed number of lung cancer deaths.

Usage

LungCa

Format

A data frame with 63 observations on the following 4 variables.

yrs_smk

Years of smoking (15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39,40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59).

pys

Person-years of follow-up.

num_cigs

Number of cigarettes smoked per day (0, 1-9, 10-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-34, 35+).

deaths

Number of lung cancer deaths.

Source

These data come from Table 24-4, page 702 of Kleinbaum et al (1988).

References

Kleinbaum, D.G., Kupper, L.L., Muller, K.E. and Nizam, A., 1988. Applied regression analysis and other multivariable methods (Vol. 601). Belmont, CA: Duxbury press

Examples

data(LungCa, package = "R4HCR")

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