SpatialEpi (version 1.2.3)

scotland: Lip Cancer in Scotland

Description

County-level (n=56) data for lip cancer among males in Scotland between 1975-1980

Usage

data(scotland)

Format

List containing:

geo	a table of county IDs, x-coordinates (eastings) and y-coordinates (northings) of the geographic centroid of each county.
data	a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information
spatial.polygon	a Spatial Polygons class (See SpatialPolygons-class) map of Scotland
polygon	a polygon map of Scotland (See polygon2spatial_polygon)

References

Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987) Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43, 671--681

See Also

mapvariable, polygon2spatial_polygon, pennLC, NYleukemia

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(scotland)
data <- scotland$data
scotland.map <- scotland$spatial.polygon

SMR <- data$cases/data$expected
mapvariable(SMR,scotland.map)
# }