scotland_sf {SpatialEpi}

Lip Cancer in Scotland

Description

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

Usage

scotland_sf

Format

A data frame with 56 rows representing counties and 5 variables:

geometry

Geometric representation of counties in Scotland

cases

Number of Lip Cancer cases per county

county.names

Scotland County name

AFF

Proportion of the population who work in agricultural fishing and farming

expected

Expected number of lip cancer cases

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

library(ggplot2)
## Not run: 
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = scotland_sf, aes(fill= cases))

## End(Not run)