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ISwR (version 2.0-9)

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

Description

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 accommodate follow-up for the nickel study.

Usage

ewrates

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

year

calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40, ....

age

age class, 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ....

lung

lung cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years

nasal

nasal cancer mortality rate per 1 million person-years

other

all cause mortality rate per 1 million person-years

Details

Taken from the “Epi” package by Bendix Carstensen et al.