This data set contains counts of incident lung cancer cases and population size in four neighbouring Danish cities by age group.
eba1977A data frame with 24 observations on the following 4 variables:
citya factor with levels Fredericia,
Horsens, Kolding, and Vejle.
agea factor with levels 40-54, 55-59,
60-64, 65-69, 70-74, and 75+.
popa numeric vector, number of inhabitants.
casesa numeric vector, number of lung cancer cases.
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.
J. Clemmensen et al. (1974), Ugeskrift for Læger, pp. 2260--2268.