County-level (n=56) data for lip cancer among males in Scotland between 1975-1980
Usage
data(scotland)
Arguments
format
List containing:
ll{
geo a table of county IDs, x-coordinates (eastings) and y-coordinates (northings) of the geographic centroid of each county.
data a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information
spatial.polygon a Spatial Polygons class (See SpatialPolygons-class) map of Scotland
polygon a polygon map of Scotland (See polygon2spatial.polygon)
}
source
Kemp I., Boyle P., Smans M. and Muir C. (1985) Atlas of cancer in Scotland, 1975-1980, incidence and epidemiologic perspective International Agency for Research on Cancer72.
References
Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987) Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43, 671--681