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) from the package INLA as well, with an additional smoking covariate. The exact origins and differences between both still needs to be retrieved.

Source

Both datasets are available from the package INLA distributed from www.r-inla.org or from
http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hrue/GMRF-book/oral.txt
http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hrue/GMRF-book/germany.graph

References

Knorr-Held, L. and Rasser, G. (2000) Bayesian Detection of Clusters and Discontinuities in Disease Maps, Biometrics, 56, 13–21.

See Also

map.landkreis.


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