Description:
This dataset is provided in the package "gcmr" in R and published in Waller and Gotway (2004). It contains data on male lip cancer incidence in Scotland counties between 1975-1980.
Format:
The csv file contains 5 columns:
observed: observed cases in each county.expected: excpected cases in each county.AFF: proportion of the population employed in agriculture, fishing, or forestry.latitude: county latitude.longitude: county longitude.
References:
Clayton D. and Kaldor J. (1987). Empirical Bayes estimates of age-standardized relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics 43, 671–681.
Waller, L.A. and Gotway, C.A. (2004) Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.