scotland {gcmr}

Scotland Lip Cancer Data

Description

Male lip cancer in Scotland counties between 1975-1980.

Usage

data(scotland)

Format

A data frame with the 56 observations with the following variables

observed	observed cases in each county.
expected	expected cases in each county.
AFF	proportion of the population employed in agriculture, fishing, or forestry.
latitude	county latitude.
longitude	county longitude.

Source

Waller, L.A. and Gotway, C.A. (2004). Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

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)