cluster.datasets (version 1.0-1)

leukemia.youth.mortality.1956.1967: Hartigan (1975) Mortality Rates from Leukemia AMong Children

Description

The table contains the mortality rates from Leukemia recorded per million children between the ages of 0 to 14 and between 1956 and 1967. This is Table 18.1 in Chapter 15 of Hartigan (1975) on page 334.

Usage

data(leukemia.youth.mortality.1956.1957)

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 13 variables.

country

a character vector for the country name

y.1956

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1956

y.1957

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1957

y.1958

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1958

y.1959

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1959

y.1960

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1960

y.1961

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1961

y.1962

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1962

y.1963

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1963

y.1964

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1964

y.1965

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1965

y.1966

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1966

y.1967

a numeric vector for the mortality rates in 1967

Source

Spier (1972). Relationship between age of death to calendar yar of estimated maximum leukemia mortality rate, HSMHA Health Report, 87, 61 - 70. SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

Details

Hartigan suggests using the adding algorithm on this data set to make a prediction.

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(leukemia.youth.mortality.1956.1967)