scotland:
Scotland Lip Cancer Data
Description
Male lip cancer in Scotland counties between 1975-1980.
Format
A data frame with the 56 observations with the following variables
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.