Larynx {gamair}

Cancer of the larynx in Germany

Description

The data give counts of deaths from cancer of the Larynx by region of Germany from 1986 to 1990, along with the expected count according to the populaiton of the region and the total deaths for the whle of Germany. A list of polygons defining the boundaries of the districts is also provided.

Usage

data(larynx)
data(german.polys)

Format

The Larynx data frame has the following columns

region

A factor with 544 levels identifying the health reporting region.

E

Expected number of deaths according to population of region and pan-German total.

Y

Number of deaths from cancer of the Larynx in the region.

x

A measure of level of smoking in the region.

german.polys is a list with one item per health reporting region in Larynx. The name of each item identifies the region using the same labels as Larynx$region. Each item is a two column matrix defining a polygon approximating the outline of the region it relates to. Each row of the matrix defines a polygon vertex. NA rows separate geographically disjoint areas which are part of the same region.

Details

Note that the polygons are set up to exactly share vertices with their neighbours, which facilitates the auto-identification of neighbourhood structures.

Source

Data are from the INLA website:

http://www.r-inla.org/

Examples

require(gamair);require(mgcv)
data(larynx);data(german.polys)

## plot raw deaths over expected deaths by region...
polys.plot(german.polys,Larynx$Y/Larynx$E)

## Fit additive model with Gauss MRF for space and smooth of
## smoking level. k somewhat low to reduce computational time
b <- gam(Y~s(region,k=60,bs="mrf",xt=list(polys=german.polys)) +
offset(log(E))+s(x,k=10),family=poisson,data=Larynx,method="REML")

summary(b)
plot(b,scheme=c(0,1),pages=1)