USCancerRates          package:latticeExtra          R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to
     cancer by sex in US counties.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(USCancerRates)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.

     '_r_a_t_e._m_a_l_e' a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000 due
          to cancer among males

     '_L_C_L_9_5._m_a_l_e' a 95% lower confidence limit for 'rate.male' 

     '_U_C_L_9_5._m_a_l_e' a 95% upper confidence limit for 'rate.male' 

     '_r_a_t_e._f_e_m_a_l_e' a numeric vector, giving rate of death per 100,000
          due to cancer among females

     '_L_C_L_9_5._f_e_m_a_l_e' a 95% lower confidence limit for 'rate.female'

     '_U_C_L_9_5._f_e_m_a_l_e' a 95% upper confidence limit for 'rate.female'

     '_s_t_a_t_e' a factor with levels giving name of US state 

     '_c_o_u_n_t_y' a character vector giving county names, in a format
          similar to that used for county map boundaries in the 'maps'
          package. 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     See the scripts directory for details of data preprocessing steps.

     From the website: Death data provided by the National Vital
     Statistics System public use data file.  Death rates calculated by
     the National Cancer Institute using SEER*Stat.  Death rates are
     age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population [<URL:
     http://www.seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html>].
     Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations
     as modified by NCI.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     <URL: http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/>

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(USCancerRates)

