ex0323: Solar Radiation and Skin Cancer

In Sleuth3: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd Ed)"

Solar Radiation and Skin Cancer

Description

Data contains yearly skin cancer rates (per 100,000 people) in Connecticut from 1938 to 1972 with a code indicating those years that came two years after higher than average sunspot activity and those years that came two years after lower than average sunspot activity.

Usage

ex0323

Format

A data frame with 35 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year

year

CancerRate

skin cancer rate per 100,000 people

SunspotActivity

a factor with levels "High" and "Low"

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.

References

Andrews, D.F. and Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A Collection of Problems from many Fields for the Student and Research Worker, Springer-Verlag.

Examples

str(ex0323)

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