R: Oral Cavity Cancer

Oral {spam} | R Documentation

## Oral Cavity Cancer

### Description

Oral cavity cancer counts in 544 districts in Germany over 1986-1990.

### Format

`Oral` is a dataframe with 3 columns.

Y

  observed counts

E

  expected counts

SMR

  standardized mortality ratios

`germany` is a list of 544 elements, each describing an individual polygon of the district.

### Details

The expected counts depend on the number of people in the region and their age distribution.
The regions are ordered according the supplied polygon description and adjacency graph.

There is a similar dataset `data(Germany)` with larynx cancer cases from the package INLA as well, with an additional smoking covariate.

### Source

The data is available from the package INLA distributed from www.r-inla.org.

### References

Knorr-Held, L. and Rasser, G. (2000) Bayesian Detection of Clusters and Discontinuities in Disease Maps, Biometrics, 56, 13–21.

### See Also

`germany.plot`.

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