USCancerRates {latticeExtra} | R Documentation |
This data set records the annual rates of death (1999-2003) due to cancer by sex in US counties.
data(USCancerRates)
A data frame with 3041 observations on the following 8 variables.
rate.male
LCL95.male
rate.male
UCL95.male
rate.male
rate.female
LCL95.female
rate.female
UCL95.female
rate.female
state
county
maps
package. 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 [http://www.seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/stdpop.19ages.html]. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI.
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/
data(USCancerRates)