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Age-specific incidence rates of disease
Description
A tab-separated text-file storing age-specific incidence rates for a defined calendar period.
Usage
incidence
Format
A matrix.
- (a) The first row:
- file header consisting
of the keyword age and the years for which incidence rates
are available.
For example, it could look like
age | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | ... | 2002 |
- (b) The first column:
- age groups (e.g. from 0 to 100)
- (c) The remaining columns:
- age-specific incidence rates of disease
Source
CANCERMondial Statistical Information System [database online]:
International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available at:
http://www-dep.iarc.fr/
[Package
poplab version 1.0.2
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