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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.

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eba1977

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UTF-8

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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.