This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.
data(USCancerRates)A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.
rate.malea numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among males
LCL95.malea 95% lower confidence limit for rate.male
UCL95.malea 95% upper confidence limit for rate.male
rate.femalea numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among females
LCL95.femalea 95% lower confidence limit for rate.female
UCL95.femalea 95% upper confidence limit for rate.female
statea factor with levels giving name of US state
countya character vector giving county names, in a
format similar to that used for county map boundaries in the
maps package.
See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.
From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [http://www.seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
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data(USCancerRates)
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