cancerMN: malignant neoplasms cancer

cancerMNR Documentation

malignant neoplasms cancer

Description

Two main types of malignant neoplasms cancer affecting colon and lung, respectively, in male and female populations. For this purpose population data (2012) from 35 OECD countries were collected.

Format

A data set on 35 compositional tables on 4 parts (row-wise sorted cells) and 5 variables.

Details

country

country

females-colon

number of colon cancer cases in female population

females-lung

number of lung cancer cases in female population

males-colon

number of colon cancer cases in male population

males-lung

number of lung cancer cases in male population

The data are obtained from the OECD website.

Author(s)

conversion to R by Karel Hron and intergration by Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at

Source

From OECD website

Examples


data(cancerMN)
head(cancerMN)
rowSums(cancerMN[, 2:5])

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