auckland {GeoXp}R Documentation

Marshall's infant mortality in Auckland dataset

Description

The Auckland data frame has 167 rows (census area units - CAU) and 4 columns.

Usage

data(auckland)

Format

A data frame with 167 observations on the following 4 variables.

Easting
a numeric vector of $x$ coordinates in an unknown spatial reference system
Northing
a numeric vector of $y$ coordinates in an unknown spatial reference system
Deaths.1977.85
a numeric vector of counts of infant (under 5 years of age) deaths in Auckland 1977-1985
Under.5.1981
a numeric vector of population under 5 years of age at the 1981 Census

Details

This data provides from spdep package.

Source

Bailey T, Gatrell A (1995) Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Harlow: Longman - INFOMAP data set used with permission.

Bivand R. (2008), `The spdep package', http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/spdep.pdf.

Marshall R M (1991) Mapping disease and mortality rates using Empirical Bayes Estimators, Applied Statistics, 40, 283-294;

Examples

data(auckland)

[Package GeoXp version 1.2 Index]