scotland {SpatialEpi}

Lip Cancer in Scotland

Description

County-level (n=56) data for lip cancer among males in Scotland between 1975-1980

Usage

scotland

Format

List containing:

geo

a table of county IDs, x-coordinates (eastings) and y-coordinates (northings) of the geographic centroid of each county.

data

a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information

spatial.polygon

a Spatial Polygons class (See SpatialPolygons-class) map of Scotland

polygon

a polygon map of Scotland (See polygon2spatial_polygon()

Source

Kemp I., Boyle P., Smans M. and Muir C. (1985) Atlas of cancer in Scotland, 1975-1980, incidence and epidemiologic perspective International Agency for Research on Cancer 72.

References

Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987) Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43, 671–681.

Examples

data(scotland)
data <- scotland$data
scotland.map <- scotland$spatial.polygon
SMR <- data$cases/data$expected
mapvariable(SMR,scotland.map)