cancer                 package:Rlab                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The data set 'cancer' examines a relationship between lung cancer
     and cigarette smoking. The data consist of , a standardized
     measure of smoking amount (smoke) and the standardized mortality
     ratio (SMR) for males in England and Wales in 1970-72 who were
     working in 25 different broad groups of jobs such as textile
     workers, miners, etc.

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 25 observations on the following 2 variables.

     _s_m_o_k_e : standardized measure of smoking amount

     _S_M_R : standardized mortality ratio

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     A Handbook of Small Data Sets by Hand, et al. (1994, p.67).

