ewrates

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer,
and all causes 1936 - 1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in
order to accomodate follow up for the <code><a href="/link/nickel?package=Epi&version=0.7.0" rd-options="" data-mini-rdoc="Epi::nickel">nickel</a></code> study.

datasets

Functions for demographic and epidemiological
  analysis in the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up
  data, including interval censored data. Also some useful functions
  for tabulation and plotting. Contains some epidemiological datasets.

Bendix Carstensen

A package for statistical analysis in epidemiology.

ewrates function

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:
<tabular>rl</tabular>{
<code>id</code>: 	Subject identifier (numeric) <code>year</code>  	Calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40,
    ...<code>age</code>   	Age class: 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ...<code>lung</code>  	Lung cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py. <code>nasal</code> 	Nasal cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py. <code>other</code> 	All cause mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
}

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From Breslow and Day, Vol II, Appendix IX.

ewrates: Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

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