wmlung5070US:
U.S. lung cancer mortality data for white males, 1950-1969 and 1970-1994
Description
Count and age-adjusted rate of lung cancer mortality among white men for the total U.S.,
aggregated for 1950-69 and 1970-94.
Format
A data frame with 1 observations on the following 5 variables.
- RATEWM_50
- a numeric vector, US age adjusted mortality rates for 1950-1969
- COUNTWM_50
- a numeric vector, US number of cases from 1950-1969
- RATEWM_70
- a numeric vector, US age adjusted mortality rates for 1970-1994
- COUNTWM_70
- a numeric vector, US number of cases from 1970-1994
- PERCENT
- a numeric vector, change from 1950-1969 to 1970-1994 US rates.
Details
see wmlung5070 for further details.
The row name is always US indicating US rates.
This dataset is used by the micromapST examples.