Mmmec: Malignant melanoma deaths in Europe

Description

Malignant Melanoma Mortality in the European Community associated with the impact of UV radiation exposure.

Usage

data(Mmmec)

Arguments

source

http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/mmmec.html

References

Langford, I.H., Bentham, G. and McDonald, A. 1998: Multilevel modelling of geographically aggregated health data: a case study on malignant melanoma mortality and UV exposure in the European community. Statistics in Medicine 17: 41-58.

Examples

Run this code

data(Mmmec)
str(Mmmec)
summary(Mmmec)
fm1 <- GLMM(deaths ~ offset(log(expected)) + uvb,
 family = poisson, data = Mmmec, random = ~ 1 | region,
 niter = 25)
summary(fm1)