nickel

The <code>nickel</code> data frame has 679 rows and 7 columns.
The data concern a cohort of nickel smelting workers in South Wales and
are taken from Breslow and Day, Volume 2. For comparison purposes,
England and Wales mortality rates (per 1,000,000 per annum)
from lung cancer (ICDs 162 and 163),
nasal cancer (ICD 160), and all causes, by age group and calendar period, are
supplied in the dataset <code><a href="/link/ewrates?package=Epi&version=0.6.2" rd-options="" data-mini-rdoc="Epi::ewrates">ewrates</a></code>.

datasets

Functions for demographic and epidemiological
  analysis in the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up
  data. Also some useful functions for tabulation and plotting.
  Contains some epidemiological datasets.

Bendix Carstensen

A package for statistical analysis in epidemiology.

nickel function

This data frame contains the following columns:
<tabular>rl</tabular>{
<code>id</code>: 	Subject identifier (numeric) <code>icd</code>: 	ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric) <code>exposure</code>: 	Exposure index for workplace (numeric) <code>dob</code>: 	Date of birth (numeric) <code>age1st</code>: 	Age at first exposure (numeric) <code>agein</code>: 	Age at start of follow-up (numeric) <code>ageout</code>: 	Age at end of follow-up (numeric) }

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Breslow NE, and Day N, Statistical Methods in Cancer Research. Volume
II: The Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies. IARC Scientific
Publications, IARC:Lyon, 1987.

nickel: A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales

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