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## Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

### Description

England and Wales mortality rates from lung cancer, nasal cancer, and all causes 1936 - 1980. The 1936 rates are repeated as 1931 rates in order to accomodate follow up for the `nickel` study.

### Usage

    data(ewrates)

### Format

A data frame with 150 observations on the following 5 variables:

`id`: | Subject identifier (numeric)
`year` | Calendar period, 1931: 1931--35, 1936: 1936--40, ...
`age` | Age class: 10: 10--14, 15:15--19, ...
`lung` | Lung cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
`nasal` | Nasal cancer mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.
`other` | All cause mortality rate per 1,000,000 py.

### Source

From Breslow and Day, Vol II, Appendix IX.

### Examples

    data(ewrates)
    str(ewrates)

[Package Epi version 2.42 Index]