respiratorydata: Respiratory hospitalisation data for the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health
board
Description
A data.frame object containing purely spatial data on hospital admisssions due to
respiratory disease in 2010 for the 134 Intermediate Zones (IZ) to the north
of the river Clyde in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board. These data are
used in a worked example in the vignette accompanying the CARBayes package.
Usage
data(respiratorydata)
Arguments
Format
A data.frame object containing 134 observations on the following 5 variables.
IZ
The unique identifier for each IZ.
observed
The observed numbers of hospitalisations due to
respiratory disease.
expected
The expected numbers of hospitalisations due to
respiratory disease computed using indirect standardisation from
Scotland-wide respiratory hospitalisation rates.
incomedep
The percentage of people who are defined to be income
deprived.
SMR
The standardised morbidity ratio (SMR = observed / expected)
for respiratory hospitalisation.