pennLC

County-level (n=67) population/case data for lung cancer in Pennsylvania in 2002, stratified on race (white vs non-white), gender and age (Under 40, 40-59, 60-69 and 70+). Additionally, county-specific smoking rates.

datasets

Methods and data for cluster detection and disease mapping.

Albert Y Kim

SpatialEpi

Methods and Data for Spatial Epidemiology

Cici Chen

Albert Y. Kim

Michelle Ross

Jon Wakefield

Mikael Moise

pennLC function

List of 3 items<dl>
<dt>geo</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs, longitude/latitude of the geographic centroid of each county</dd><dt>data</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information</dd><dt>smoking</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs and proportion of smokers</dd><dt>spatial.polygon</dt>
<dd>an object of class SpatialPolygons</dd></dl>

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Pennsylvania Lung Cancer — pennLC

List of 3 items<dl>
<dt>geo</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs, longitude/latitude of the geographic centroid of each county</dd>

<dt>data</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information</dd>

<dt>smoking</dt>
<dd>a table of county IDs and proportion of smokers</dd>

<dt>spatial.polygon</dt>
<dd>an object of class SpatialPolygons</dd>



</dl>

pennLC: Pennsylvania Lung Cancer

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