NM_popcas {scanstatistics}

Population and brain cancer cases in New Mexico counties during 1973–1991.

Description

A dataset containing the population count and number of brain cancer cases in the counties of New Mexico during the years 1973–1991. The population numbers are interpolations from the censuses conducted in 1973, 1982, and 1991. Interpolations were done using a quadratic function of time. Thus the year-to-year changes are overly smooth but match the census numbers in the three years mentioned.

Usage

NM_popcas

Format

A data frame with 608 rows and 4 variables:

year

Integer; the year the cases were recorded.

county

Character; the name of the county (no spaces).

population

Integer; the population in that county and year.

count

Integer; the number of brain cancer cases in that county and year.