ewrates

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer,
and all causes, 1936--1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in
order to accommodate follow-up for the <code>nickel</code> study.

datasets

Data sets and scripts for text examples and exercises in
P. Dalgaard (2008), `Introductory Statistics with R', 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-0387790534.

Peter Dalgaard

ISwR

Introductory Statistics with R

ewrates function

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:<dl>
 <dt><code>year</code></dt>
<dd>calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936:
 1936--40, ....</dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age class, 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ....</dd> <dt><code>lung</code></dt>
<dd>lung cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd> <dt><code>nasal</code></dt>
<dd>nasal cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd> <dt><code>other</code></dt>
<dd>all cause mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd> 
</dl>

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Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality. — ewrates

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:<dl>
 <dt><code>year</code></dt>
<dd>calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936:
 1936--40, ....</dd>

 <dt><code>age</code></dt>
<dd>age class, 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ....</dd>

 <dt><code>lung</code></dt>
<dd>lung cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd>

 <dt><code>nasal</code></dt>
<dd>nasal cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd>

 <dt><code>other</code></dt>
<dd>all cause mortality rate per 1 million person-years</dd>

 
</dl>

ewrates: Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

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