scottish.lip.cancer {GLMMGibbs}R Documentation

Cases of Lip Cancer in Scottish Counties

Description

The number of cases of lip cancer registered in each of the 56 (pre-reoreganisation) counties of Scotland, together with the expected number of cases given the age-sex structure of the population and the percentege of workers employed in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries.

Usage

data(scottish.lip.cancer)

Format

[,1] observed numeric Number of oases
[,2] expected numeric expected number of cases
[,3] AFF numeric percentage of workers employed in AFF

Source

Breslow, N.E. and Clayton, D.G,. (1993) Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models J. Amer. Statistical Association pages 9-25, volume 88