ex1514: Melanoma and Sunspot Activity-An Observational Study

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

Melanoma and Sunspot Activity—An Observational Study

Description

Several factors suggest that the incidence of melanoma is related to solar radiation. These data are the age-adjusted melanoma incidence among males in the Connecticut Tumor Registry and the sunspot activity, 1936–1972 .

Usage

ex1514

Format

A data frame with 37 observations on the following 3 variables.

Year

year

Melanoma

male melanoma incidence in number of cases per 100,000 population

Sunspot

sunspot relative number

Source

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

References

Houghton, A., Munster, E.W. and Viola, M.V. (1978). Increased Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity, Lancet: 759–760.

Examples

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