Lip Cancer in Scotland (1970s) — scotlip • geodaData

Male lip cancer cases in Scottish districts 1975-80 and male population years at risk.

scotlip

Format

An sf data frame with 56 rows, 11 variables, and a geometry column:

CODENO: Code converted to numeric (drop w prefix)
AREA: Polygon area
PERIMETER: Polygon perimeter
RECORD_ID: Unique ID
DISTRICT: District number 1-56
NAME: Name of districts from Cressie (1993)
CODE: District code from WinBugs
CANCER: Lip cancer cases from Cressie (1993)
POP: Population years at risk from Cressie (1993)
CEXP: Expected cases from Lawson et al. (1999)
AFF: Outdoor industry from Lawson et al. (1999)
geometry: POLYGON

Source

(1) Original from Clayton, D., and Kaldor, J. (1987). Empirical Bayes estimates of age standardised relative risks for use in disease mapping. Biometrics, 43,671-681, reproduced from Cressie, N. A. C. (1993). Statistics for Spatial Data. New York: John Wiley & Sons, p. 537 Table 7.2. (2) Expected cases and percent of population in outdoor industry AFF (agriculture, fishing, forestry) from Lawson et al. (1999). Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health. New York: Wiley, pp. 68-69, Table 5.1. (3) Base map from Scotland.map included with WinBugs, exported to S-Plus format and edited (conversion to GeoDa input format, elimination of duplicate coordinates and editing of sliver polygons); islands with multiple polygons represented by a single polygon.

Details

Sf object, unprojected. EPSG 4326: WGS84.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(scotlip)
  plot(scotlip["CANCER"])
}
#> Warning: bounding box has potentially an invalid value range for longlat data
#> Warning: bounding box has potentially an invalid value range for longlat data