fda (version 6.2.0)

melanoma: melanoma 1936-1972

Description

These data from the Connecticut Tumor Registry present age-adjusted numbers of melanoma skin-cancer incidences per 100,000 people in Connectict for the years from 1936 to 1972.

Format

A data frame with 37 observations on the following 2 variables.

year

Years 1936 to 1972.

incidence

Rate of melanoma cancer per 100,000 population.

Details

This is a copy of the 'melanoma' dataset in the 'lattice' package. It is unrelated to the object of the same name in the 'boot' package.

References

Ramsay, James O., Hooker, Giles, and Graves, Spencer (2009), Functional data analysis with R and Matlab, Springer, New York.

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2005), Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2002), Applied Functional Data Analysis, Springer, New York.

See Also

melanoma melanoma

Examples

oldpar <- par(no.readonly=TRUE)
plot(melanoma[, -1], type="b")
par(oldpar)