SpatialEpi (version 1.1)

scotland: Lip Cancer in Scotland

Description

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 Cancer 72.

References

Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987) Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43, 671--681

See Also

mapvariable, polygon2spatial.polygon, pennLC, NYleukemia

Examples

Run this code
data(scotland)
data <- scotland$data
scotland.map <- scotland$spatial.polygon

SMR <- data$cases/data$expected
mapvariable(SMR,scotland.map)

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