lcancer {sm}

Spatial positions of cases of laryngeal cancer

Description

These data record the spatial positions of cases of laryngeal cancer in the North-West of England between 1974 and 1983, together with the positions of a number of lung cancer patients who were used as controls. The data have been adjusted to preserve anonymity.

The variables are:

Easting	a west-east grid reference
Northing	a north-south grid reference
Cancer	an indicator of laryngeal (1) or lung (2) cancer

Source: Bailey & Gatrell (1995). Interactive Spatial Data Analysis. Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow. A more extensive set of data is analysed in Kelsall & Diggle, kernel estimation of relative risk, Bernoulli 1, 3-16.