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cancermortality

Cancer mortality data

Description

Number of cancer deaths and number at risk for 20 cities in Missouri.

Usage

cancermortality

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on the following 2 variables.

y

number of cancer deaths

n

number at risk

Source

Tsutakawa, R., Shoop, G., and Marienfeld, C. (1985), Empirical Bayes Estimation of Cancer Mortality Rates, Statistics in Medicine, 4, 201-212.

LearnBayes

Functions for Learning Bayesian Inference

v2.15.1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Jim Albert
Initial release
2018-03-18

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