Population estimates and lung cancer death counts for the state of Ohio in 1988, among 55-84 year olds. Counts are stratified by age, sex and race.
data(Ohio)A data frame consisting of 12 observations, with the following columns:
AgeA 3-level categorical level variable; 0=55-64 years; 1=65-74 years; 2=75-84 years.
SexA binary variable; 0=male; 1=female.
RaceA binary variable; 0=white; 1=non-white.
NA numeric vector of estimated population counts.
DeathA numeric vector of lung cancer death counts.
The data were obtained from the National Center for Heatlh Statistics Compressed Mortality File and correspond to a population of 2,220,177 individuals with 5,533 lung cancer deaths. A more comprehensive dataset, providing counts further stratified by county as well as for the years 1968 to 1988, is described by Xia and Carlin (1998).