Scotland {INLA} | R Documentation |
The rate of lip cancer in 56 counties in Scotland is recorder. The data set includes the observed and expected cases (based on the population and its age and sex distribution in the country), a covariate measuring the percentage of the population engaged in agricolture, fishing or forestry and the "position" of each county expressed as a list of adjacent counties
A data frame with 56 observations on the following 4 variables.
The number of lip cancer registered
The expected number of lip cancer
The percentage of the population engaged in agricolture, fishing or forestry
The county
OpenBUGS Example manual, GeoBUGS
Clayton and Kaldor (1987) and Breslow and Clayton (1993)
data(Scotland)