R: Cancer mortality data

cancermortality {LearnBayes} | R Documentation

## Cancer mortality data

### Description

Number of cancer deaths and number at risk for 20 cities in Missouri.

### Usage

    cancermortality

### Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

y

  number of cancer deaths

n

  number at risk

### Source

Tsutakawa, R., Shoop, G., and Marienfeld, C. (1985), Empirical Bayes Estimation of Cancer Mortality Rates, Statistics in Medicine, 4, 201-212.

[Package LearnBayes version 2.15 Index]