USCancerRates: Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties
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Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties
Description
This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to
cancer by sex in US counties.
Usage
data(USCancerRates)
Format
A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.
rate.malea numeric vector, giving rate of death per
100,000 due to cancer among males
LCL95.malea 95% lower confidence limit for rate.male
UCL95.malea 95% upper confidence limit for rate.male
rate.femalea numeric vector, giving rate of death per
100,000 due to cancer among females
LCL95.femalea 95% lower confidence limit for rate.female
UCL95.femalea 95% upper confidence limit for rate.female
state a factor with levels giving name of US state
county a character vector giving county names, in a
format similar to that used for county map boundaries in the
maps package.
Details
See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.
From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics
System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National
Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the
2000 US standard population
[https://seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html].
Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as
modified by NCI.
Source
https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/
Examples
data(USCancerRates)
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Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties
Description
This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.
Usage
data(USCancerRates)
Format
A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.
rate.malea numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among males
LCL95.malea 95% lower confidence limit for
rate.maleUCL95.malea 95% upper confidence limit for
rate.malerate.femalea numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among females
LCL95.femalea 95% lower confidence limit for
rate.femaleUCL95.femalea 95% upper confidence limit for
rate.femalestatea factor with levels giving name of US state
countya character vector giving county names, in a format similar to that used for county map boundaries in the
mapspackage.
Details
See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.
From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [https://seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
Source
https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/
Examples
data(USCancerRates)
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