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H_melanoma: Melanoma skin cancer incidence

Description

These data from the Connecticut Tumor Registry present age-adjusted numbers of melanoma skin-cancer incidences per 100,000 people in Connectict for the years from 1936 to 1972.

Usage

melanoma

Format

A data frame with 37 observations on the following 2 variables.

Source

Houghton, A., E. W. Munster, and M. V. Viola. (1978). Increased Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity. The Lancet, 8, 759--760.

References

Cleveland, William S. (1993) Visualizing Data. Hobart Press, Summit, New Jersey.

Examples

# Time-series plot.  Figure 3.64 from Cleveland.
xyplot(incidence ~ year,
  data = melanoma,
	aspect = "xy",
	panel = function(x, y)
		panel.xyplot(x, y, type="o", pch = 16),
	ylim = c(0, 6),
	xlab = "Year",
	ylab = "Incidence")