scotland {SpatialEpi} | R Documentation |
County-level (n=56) data for lip cancer among males in Scotland between 1975-1980
data(scotland)
List containing:
geo | a table of county IDs, x-coordinates (eastings) and y-coordinates (northings) of the geographic centroid of each county. |
data | a table of county IDs, number of cases, population and strata information |
spatial.polygon | a Spatial Polygons class (See SpatialPolygons-class) map of Scotland |
polygon | a polygon map of Scotland (See polygon2spatial.polygon ) |
Kemp I., Boyle P., Smans M. and Muir C. (1985) Atlas of cancer in Scotland, 1975-1980, incidence and epidemiologic perspective International Agency for Research on Cancer 72.
Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987) Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43, 671–681
mapvariable
, polygon2spatial.polygon
, pennLC
data(scotland) data <- scotland$data scotland.map <- scotland$spatial.polygon SMR <- data$cases/data$expected mapvariable(SMR,scotland.map)