eba1977 function

Lung cancer incidence in four Danish cities 1968--1971

This data set contains counts of incident lung cancer cases and population size in four neighbouring Danish cities by age group. UTF-8

data

eba1977

Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following 4 variables:

• city: a factor with levels Fredericia, Horsens, Kolding, and Vejle.
• age: a factor with levels 40-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, and 75+.
• pop: a numeric vector, number of inhabitants.
• cases: a numeric vector, number of lung cancer cases.

Details

These data were at the center of public interest in Denmark in 1974 , according to Erling Andersen's paper. The city of Fredericia has a substantial petrochemical industry in the harbour area.

Source

E.B. Andersen (1977), Multiplicative Poisson models with unequal cell rates, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4:153--158.

References

J. Clemmensen et al. (1974), Ugeskrift for, pp. 2260--2268.