cancerMN {robCompositions}

malignant neoplasms cancer

Description

Two main types of malignant neoplasms cancer affecting colon and lung, respectively, in male and female populations. For this purpose population data (2012) from 35 OECD countries were collected.

Format

A data set on 35 compositional tables on 4 parts (row-wise sorted cells) and 5 variables.

Details

• country country

• females-colon number of colon cancer cases in female population

• females-lung number of lung cancer cases in female population

• males-colon number of colon cancer cases in male population

• males-lung number of lung cancer cases in male population

The data are obtained from the OECD website.

Author(s)

conversion to R by Karel Hron and intergration by Matthias Templ [e-mail]

Source

From OECD website

Examples

data(cancerMN)
head(cancerMN)
rowSums(cancerMN[, 2:5])