holford: Holford's data on prostatic cancer deaths
Description
Holford's data on prostatic cancer deaths and mid-period population denominators for non-whites in the US by age and calendar period. Thirteen birth cohorts from 1855-59 through to 1915-19 are represented in at least one of seven 5-year age groups (50-54 through to 80-84) and one of the seven 5-year calendar periods (1935-39 through to 1965-69) for which data are provided.source
Holford, T.R. (1983) The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics, 39, 311--324.References
Breslow, N.E. (1984), Extra-Poisson variation in log-linear models, Applied Statistics, 33, 38--44.