R: Melanoma skin cancer incidence

H_melanoma {lattice} | R Documentation

## Melanoma skin cancer incidence

### Description

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.

### Usage

    melanoma

### Format

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

year

  Years 1936 to 1972.

incidence

  Rate of melanoma cancer per 100,000 population.

### Note

This dataset is not related to the `melanoma` dataset in the boot package with the same name.

The S-PLUS 6.2 help for the melanoma data says that the incidence rate is per million, but this is not consistent with data found at the National Cancer Institute (http://www.nci.nih.gov).

### Author(s)

Documentation contributed by Kevin Wright.

### Source

Houghton, A., E. W. Munster, and M. V. Viola. (1978). Increased Incidence of Malignant Melanoma After Peaks of Sunspot Activity. The Lancet, 8, 759–760.

### References

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

### Examples

    # 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")

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