| Oral {spam} | R Documentation |
Oral Cavity Cancer
Description
Oral cavity cancer counts in 544 districts in Germany over 1986-1990.
Format
Oral is a dataframe with 3 columns.
- Y
observed counts
- E
expected counts
- SMR
standardized mortality ratios
germany is a
list of 544 elements, each describing an individual polygon of the district.
Details
The expected counts depend on the number of people in the
region and their age distribution.
The regions are ordered according the supplied polygon description and
adjacency graph.
There is a similar dataset data(Germany) with larynx cancer cases from the package
INLA as well, with an additional smoking covariate.
Source
The data is available from the package INLA distributed from https://www.r-inla.org.
References
Knorr-Held, L. and Rasser, G. (2000) Bayesian Detection of Clusters and Discontinuities in Disease Maps, Biometrics, 56, 13–21.