USCancerRates {latticeExtra} | R Documentation |
Rate of Death Due to Cancer in US Counties
Description
This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.
Usage
data(USCancerRates)
Format
A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.
rate.male
a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among males
LCL95.male
a 95% lower confidence limit for
rate.male
UCL95.male
a 95% upper confidence limit for
rate.male
rate.female
a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due to cancer among females
LCL95.female
a 95% lower confidence limit for
rate.female
UCL95.female
a 95% upper confidence limit for
rate.female
state
a factor with levels giving name of US state
county
a character vector giving county names, in a format similar to that used for county map boundaries in the
maps
package.
Details
See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.
From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital Statistics System public use data file. Death rates calculated by the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat. Death rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [https://seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
Source
https://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/
Examples
data(USCancerRates)