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nickel: A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales

Description

The nickel data frame has 679 rows and 7 columns. The data concern a cohort of nickel smelting workers in South Wales and are taken from Breslow and Day, Volume 2. For comparison purposes, England and Wales mortality rates (per 1,000,000 per annum) from lung cancer (ICDs 162 and 163), nasal cancer (ICD 160), and all causes, by age group and calendar period, are supplied in the dataset ewrates.

Arguments

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

id:Subject identifier (numeric)
icd:ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric)
exposure:Exposure index for workplace (numeric)
dob:Date of birth (numeric)
age1st:Age at first exposure (numeric)
agein:Age at start of follow-up (numeric)
ageout:Age at end of follow-up (numeric)

Examples

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data(nickel)
str(nickel)

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