apc (version 2.0.0)

data.US.prostate.cancer: Japanese breast cancer data

Description

Function that organises US prostate data in apc.data.list format.

The data set is taken from table 2 of Holford (1983), which contains age-specific counts of deaths and midperiod population measured in 1000s, during the period 1935-1969. Reported in 5 year age groups and 5 year period groups.

The original source was Cancer deaths: National Center for Health Statistics, 1937-1973 Population 1935-60: Grove and Hetzel, 1968 Population 1960-69: Bureau of the Census, 1974

The data set is in "AP"-format.

Usage

data.US.prostate.cancer()

Value

The value is a list in apc.data.list format.

response

matrix of cases

dose

matrix of cases/rates

data.format

logical equal to "AP". Data organised with age-groups in rows and period-groups in columns.

age1

numeric equal to 50. This is the label for the first age group covering ages 25-29.

per1

numeric equal to 1935. This is the label for the first period group covering period 1955-1959.

coh1

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

unit

numeric equal to 5. This is the width of the age and period groups.

per.zero

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

per.max

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

time.adjust

0. Thus age=50 in period=1935 corresponds to cohort=1935-50+0=1885, and indeed the centers of the age and period groups, that is age=52 and period=1937 translate into cohort=1937-52+0=1885.

label

character. "US prostate cancer".

References

Holford, T.R. (1983) The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics 39, 311-324.

See Also

General description of apc.data.list format.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#########################
##	It is convient to construct a data variable

data	<- data.US.prostate.cancer()

##	To see the content of the data

data
# }