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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: Melanoma skin cancer incidence</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for H_melanoma {lattice}"><tr><td>H_melanoma {lattice}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2> Melanoma skin cancer incidence </h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>These data from the Connecticut Tumor Registry present age-adjusted numbers of melanoma skin-cancer incidences per 100,000 people in Connectict for the years from 1936 to 1972. </p> <h3>Usage</h3> <pre>melanoma</pre> <h3>Format</h3> <p>A data frame with 37 observations on the following 2 variables. </p> <dl> <dt>year</dt><dd><p>Years 1936 to 1972.</p> </dd> <dt>incidence</dt><dd><p>Rate of melanoma cancer per 100,000 population.</p> </dd> </dl> <h3>Note</h3> <p>This dataset is not related to the <code><a href="../../boot/html/melanoma.html">melanoma</a></code> dataset in the <b>boot</b> package with the same name. </p> <p>The S-PLUS 6.2 help for the melanoma data says that the incidence rate is per <em>million</em>, but this is not consistent with data found at the National Cancer Institute (<a href="https://www.cancer.gov/">https://www.cancer.gov/</a>). </p> <h3>Author(s)</h3> <p>Documentation contributed by Kevin Wright. </p> <h3>Source</h3> <p>Houghton, A., E. W. Munster, and M. V. Viola. (1978). Increased Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity. <em>The Lancet</em>, <b>8</b>, 759–760. </p> <h3>References</h3> <p>Cleveland, William S. (1993) <em>Visualizing Data</em>. Hobart Press, Summit, New Jersey. </p> <h3>Examples</h3> <pre> # Time-series plot. Figure 3.64 from Cleveland. xyplot(incidence ~ year, data = melanoma, aspect = "xy", panel = function(x, y) panel.xyplot(x, y, type="o", pch = 16), ylim = c(0, 6), xlab = "Year", ylab = "Incidence") </pre> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>lattice</em> version 0.20-38 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>