melanoma {vis}R Documentation

melanoma

Description

Data frame giving incidence of melanoma (skin cancer) in cases per million population in Connecticut for 37 years from 1936-1972 and its potential relationship with sunspot numbers. Components are named year, incidence and sunspot.

Usage

data(melanoma)

Format

A data frame with 37 observations on the following 2 variables.

year
a numeric vector
incidence
a numeric vector

Source

All of the data sets from Cleveland (1993) can be obtained from Statlib by email or ftp. Send the message "send visualizing.data from S" to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu, or access lib.stat.cmu.edu by ftp, log in as statlib, and retrieve the file S/visualizing.data. trellis.datasets S-PLUS Language Reference S-Plus, trellis.datasets

References

Cleveland, William S. (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press, Summit, New Jersey.

Examples

data(melanoma)

[Package vis version 1.0 Index]