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eba1977: Lung cancer incidence in four Danish cities 1968--1971

Description

This data set contains counts of incident lung cancer cases and population size in four neighbouring Danish cities by age group.

Usage

eba1977

Arguments

encoding

utf8

docType

data

source

E.B. Andersen (1977), Multiplicative Poisson models with unequal cell rates, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4:153--158.

Details

These data were at the center of public interest in Denmark in 1974, according to Erling Andersen's paper. The city of Fredericia has a substantial petrochemical industry in the harbour area.

References

J. Clemmensen et al. (1974), Ugeskrift for Læger{Laeger}, pp. 2260--2268.