gcmr (version 0.7.0)

scotland: Scotland Lip Cancer Data

Description

Male lip cancer in Scotland counties between 1975-1980.

Usage

data(scotland)

format

A data frame with the 56 observations with the following variables ll{

observed observed cases in each county. expected expected cases in each county. AFF proportion of the population employed in agriculture, fishing, or forestry. latitude county latitude. longitude county longitude. }

source

Waller, L.A. and Gotway, C.A. (2004). Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

References

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

Examples

data(scotland)