npmlreg (version 0.46-5)

irlsuicide: Irish Suicide Data

Description

Suicide Rates in the Republic of Ireland 1989-1998.

Usage

data(irlsuicide)

Format

A data frame with 104 observations on the following 8 variables.

Region

a factor with levels Cork , Dublin , EHB - Dub., Galway, Lim., Mid HB, MWHB-Lim., NEHB, NWHB, SEHB-Wat., SHB-Cork, Waterf., WHB-Gal..

ID

a factor with levels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 corresponding to Regions.

pop

a numeric vector giving the population sizes (estimated for 1994).

death

a numeric vector giving the total number of deaths.

sex

a factor for gender with levels 0 (female) and 1 (male).

age

a factor for age with levels 1 (0-29), 2 (30-39), 3 (40-59), 4 (60+ years).

smr

a numeric vector with standardized mortality ratios (SMRs)

expected

a numeric vector with `expected' number of cases obtained from a reference population (Ahlbom, 1993).

Details

The data set is examined in Sofroniou et al. (2006), using a variance component model with regions as upper level.

References

Ahlbom, A., (1993). Biostatistics for Epidemiologists. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers.

Sofroniou, N., Einbeck, J., and Hinde, J. (2006). Analyzing Irish Suicide Rates with Mixture Models. Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Statistical Modelling in Galway, Ireland, 2006.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(irlsuicide)
library(lattice)
trellis.device(color=FALSE)
plot2age<-rep(gl(4,2),13)
xyplot(irlsuicide$death/irlsuicide$pop~plot2age|irlsuicide$Region, 
    pch=(1+(irlsuicide$sex==1)),xlab="age",ylab="Crude rates")


# }