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This data set contains counts of incident lung cancer cases and population size in four neighbouring Danish cities by age group.
eba1977
A data frame with 24 observations on the following 4 variables:
city
Fredericia
,
Horsens
, Kolding
, and Vejle
.age
40-54
, 55-59
,
60-64
, 65-69
, 70-74
, and 75+
.pop
cases
These data were “at the center of public interest in Denmark in 1974”, according to Erling Andersen's paper. The city of Fredericia has a substantial petrochemical industry in the harbour area.
E.B. Andersen (1977), Multiplicative Poisson models with unequal cell rates, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 4:153–158.
J. Clemmensen et al. (1974), Ugeskrift for Læger, pp. 2260–2268.