R: malignant neoplasms cancer

cancerMN {robCompositions} | R Documentation

## malignant neoplasms cancer

### Description

Two main types of malignant neoplasms cancer affecting colon and lung, respectively, in male and female populations. For this purpose population data (2012) from 35 OECD countries were collected.

### Format

A data set on 35 compositional tables on 4 parts (row-wise sorted cells) and 5 variables.

### Details

- `country` country

- `females-colon` number of colon cancer cases in female population

- `females-lung` number of lung cancer cases in female population

- `males-colon` number of colon cancer cases in male population

- `males-lung` number of lung cancer cases in male population

The data are obtained from the OECD website.

### Author(s)

conversion to R by Karel Hron and intergration by Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at

### Source

http://www.oecd.org

### Examples

    data(cancerMN)
    head(cancerMN)
    rowSums(cancerMN[, 2:5])

[Package robCompositions version 2.2.1 Index]