Scottish lip cancer data set

Description

This data set is provided in the package "gcmr" in R and published in Waller and Gotway (2004). It contains data on male lip cancer incidence in Scotland counties between 1975-1980.

Format

The csv file contains 5 columns:

• observed: observed cases in each county.
• expected: excpected cases in each county.
• AFF: proportion of the population employed in agriculture, fishing, or forestry.
• latitude: county latitude.
• longitude: county longitude.

References

Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987). Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics 43, 671–681.

Waller, L.A. and Gotway, C.A. (2004) Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.