cancer: Scottish lip cancer dataset from Clayton and Kaldor (1987)

cancerR Documentation

Scottish lip cancer dataset from Clayton and Kaldor (1987)

Description

The Scottish lip cancer dataset.

Format

The ‘cancer’ dataset contains 4 objects as follows.

O

Observed frequency.

E

Offset.

Paff

Fixed effects.

nbr

Spatial correlation matrix D for CAR model.

Source

Clayton D, Kaldor J 1987. Empirical Bayes Estimation of Age-standardized Relative Risk for use in Disease Mapping. Biometrics 43, 671–681

References

Clayton D, Kaldor J 1987. Empirical Bayes Estimation of Age-standardized Relative Risk for use in Disease Mapping. Biometrics 43, 671–681


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