holford {dispmod}

Holford's data on prostatic cancer deaths

Description

Holford's data on prostatic cancer deaths and mid-period population denominators for non-whites in the US by age and calendar period. Thirteen birth cohorts from 1855-59 through to 1915-19 are represented in at least one of seven 5-year age groups (50-54 through to 80-84) and one of the seven 5-year calendar periods (1935-39 through to 1965-69) for which data are provided.

Usage

data(minitab)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

incid

number ofd prostatic cancer deaths.

pop

mid-period population counts.

Age

age groups.

Period

calendar periods.

Cohort

cohorts.

Source

Holford, T.R. (1983) The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics, 39, 311–324.

References

Breslow, N.E. (1984), Extra-Poisson variation in log-linear models, Applied Statistics, 33, 38–44.