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Oral: Oral Cavity Cancer

Description

Oral cavity cancer counts in 544 districts in Germany over 1986-1990.

Arguments

source

Both datasets are available from the package INLA distributed from www.r-inla.org or from http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hrue/GMRF-book/oral.txt http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hrue/GMRF-book/germany.graph

Details

The expected counts depend on the number of people in the region and their age distribution. The regions are ordered according the supplied polygon description and adjacency graph.

References

Knorr-Held, L. and Rasser, G. (2000) Bayesian Detection of Clusters and Discontinuities in Disease Maps, Biometrics, 56, 13--21.

See Also

map.landkreis.