ewrates {Epi}

Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

Description

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer, and all causes 1936 - 1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in order to accommodate follow up for the nickel study.

Usage

data(ewrates)

Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

id:	Subject identifier (numeric)
year	Calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40, ...
age	Age class: 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ...
lung	Lung cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
nasal	Nasal cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
other	All cause mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.

Source

From Breslow and Day, Vol II, Appendix IX.

Examples

data(ewrates)
str(ewrates)