respiratorydata {CARBayesdata}

Respiratory hospitalisation data for the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board

Description

A data.frame object containing purely spatial data on hospital admisssions due to respiratory disease in 2010 for the 134 Intermediate Zones (IZ) to the north of the river Clyde in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board. These data are used in a worked example in the vignette accompanying the CARBayes package.

Usage

data(respiratorydata)

Format

A data.frame object containing 134 observations on the following 5 variables.

IZ

The unique identifier for each IZ.

observed

The observed numbers of hospitalisations due to respiratory disease.

expected

The expected numbers of hospitalisations due to respiratory disease computed using indirect standardisation from Scotland-wide respiratory hospitalisation rates.

incomedep

The percentage of people who are defined to be income deprived.

SMR

The standardised morbidity ratio (SMR = observed / expected) for respiratory hospitalisation.

Source

These data were provided by the Scottish Government via http://statistics.gov.scot.

Examples

data(respiratorydata)