us_lungmort_2009_2011: Example Dataset: U.S. Lung and Bronchus Cancer Mortality

Description Usage Format Note Source

Description

A dataset comparing the lung and bronchus cancer mortality rates with fine particulate matter concentration levels and income per capita, 2009-2011 average. Washington DC is treated as a separate data point.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 51 rows and the following 5 columns:

state

Full state name.

state.abbr

Abbreviated state name.

lung_bronch_death

Lung and bronchus cancer mortality rate.

pm25

Outdoor fine particulate matter (PM2.5) level.

income

Annual income per capita.

Note

This is just an example data set.

Source

CDC U.S. Cancer Statistics (https://nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/cancersbystateandregion.aspx), CDC WONDER Portal (https://wonder.cdc.gov/NASA-PM.html), and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (https://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_regional.cfm)


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