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H_melanoma: Melanoma skin cancer incidence

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.

Usage

melanoma

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.

Author

Documentation contributed by Kevin Wright.

References

Cleveland, William S. (1993) Visualizing Data. Hobart Press, Summit, New Jersey.

Examples

# Time-series plot.  Figure 3.64 from Cleveland.
xyplot(incidence ~ year,
  data = melanoma,
	aspect = "xy",
	panel = function(x, y)
		panel.xyplot(x, y, type="o", pch = 16),
	ylim = c(0, 6),
	xlab = "Year",
	ylab = "Incidence")