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The number of cases of lung cancer in four Danish cities
data(danishlc)
A data frame with 24 observations on the following 4 variables.
Cases
the number of lung cancer cases; a numeric vector
Pop
the population of each age group in each city; a numeric vector
Age
the age group; a factor with levels 40-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74 and >74
40-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
>74
City
the city; a factor with levels Fredericia, Horsens, Kolding and Vejle
Fredericia
Horsens
Kolding
Vejle
The data gives the number of cases of lung cancer in four Danish cities between 1968 and 1971 inclusive.
The original source is: E. B. Andersen (1977) Multiplicative Poisson models with unequal cell rates. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4, 153--158.
data(danishlc) plot(Cases/Pop ~ City, data=danishlc)
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