CARBayesdata (version 2.2)

lipdata: Lip cancer data for Scotland

Description

These purely spatial data summarise overall lip cancer cases and possible covariate risk factors for the period 1975 to 1986, for 56 districts in Scotland. These data are used in a worked example in the vignette accompanying the CARBayes package.

Usage

data(lipdata)

Format

A data.frame object containing 56 observations on the following 5 variables.

observed

The number of recorded lip cancer cases.

expected

The expected number of lip cancer cases computed using indirect standardisation using Scotland-wide disease rates.

pcaff

The percetage of the workforce employed in agriculture, fishing and forestry.

latitude

The latitude of the centroid.

longitude

The longitude of the centroid.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(lipdata)
# }