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auckland: Marshall's infant mortality in Auckland dataset

Description

The auckland data frame has 167 rows (census area units --- CAU) and 4 columns. The dataset also includes the "nb" object auckland.nb of neighbour relations based on contiguity, the "polylist" object auckpolys of polygon boundaries for the CAU, and a matrix of CAU bounding boxes auckbbs. The auckland data frame includes the following columns:

Usage

data(auckland)

Arguments

source

Marshall R M (1991) Mapping disease and mortality rates using Empirical Bayes Estimators, Applied Statistics, 40, 283--294; Bailey T, Gatrell A (1995) Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Harlow: Longman --- INFOMAP data set used with permission.

Details

The contiguous neighbours object does not completely replicate results in the sources, and was reconstructed from auckpolys; examination of figures in the sources suggests that there are differences in detail, although probably not in substance.