ex1514: Melanoma and Sunspot Activity---An Observational Study
Description
Several factors suggest that the incidence of melanoma is related to
solar radiation. These data are the age-adjusted melanoma incidence among
males in the Connecticut Tumor Registry and the sunspot activity, 1936--1972 .
Usage
ex1514
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 37 observations on the following 3 variables.
Year
year
Melanoma
male melanoma incidence in number of cases
per 100,000 population
Sunspot
sunspot relative number
References
Houghton, A., Munster, E.W. and Viola, M.V. (1978). Increased
Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity,
Lancet: 759--760.