prostate: Prostate cancer deaths for nonwhites in the U.S., 1935-1970

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Dataset used by Holford (1983), Table 2

Usage

1

Format

A data frame with 49 rows and 5 variables:

age

Age group

period

Period group

cohort

Cohort group

deaths

Number of deaths

population

Population size

Source

Holford, Theodore R. (1983). The Estimation of Age, Period and Cohort Effects for Vital Rates. Biometrics 39(2): 311-324.


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