Melanoma Skin Cancer Incidence

Description

This data was taken from the R `lattice' package. The data is described in the package as follows:

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.

Format

A csv file has 37 observations on the following 2 variables.

• year: years 1936 to 1972.

• incidence: rate of melanoma cancer per 100,000 population.

References

Ramsay, James O., and Silverman, Bernard W. (2006), Functional Data Analysis, 2nd ed., Springer, New York.