nickel

<p>The <code>nickel</code> 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 <code>ewrates</code>.</p>

datasets

Functions for demographic and epidemiological analysis in
the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up data. In
particular representation, manipulation, rate estimation and
simulation for multistate data - the Lexis suite of functions, which
includes interfaces to 'mstate', 'etm' and 'cmprsk' packages.
Contains functions for Age-Period-Cohort and Lee-Carter modeling and
a function for interval censored data and some useful functions for
tabulation and plotting, as well as a number of epidemiological data
sets.

Bendix Carstensen

Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

Martyn Plummer

Esa Laara

Michael Hills

nickel function

<p>This data frame contains the following columns:</p><table class="table">
<tr><td><code>id</code>:</td><td>Subject identifier (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>icd</code>:</td><td>ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>exposure</code>:</td><td>Exposure index for workplace (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>dob</code>:</td><td>Date of birth (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>age1st</code>:</td><td>Age at first exposure (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>agein</code>:</td><td>Age at start of follow-up (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>ageout</code>:</td><td>Age at end of follow-up (numeric)</td></tr>
</table><p></p><p></p>

Format

A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales — nickel

<p>This data frame contains the following columns:</p><table class='table'>
<tr><td><code>id</code>:</td><td>Subject identifier (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>icd</code>:</td><td>ICD cause of death if dead, 0 otherwise (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>exposure</code>:</td><td>Exposure index for workplace (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>dob</code>:</td><td>Date of birth (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>age1st</code>:</td><td>Age at first exposure (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>agein</code>:</td><td>Age at start of follow-up (numeric)</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>ageout</code>:</td><td>Age at end of follow-up (numeric)</td></tr>
</table>



nickel: A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales

Description

Arguments

Format

Examples

`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)