Mmmec {mlmRev} | R Documentation

## Malignant melanoma deaths in Europe

### Description

Malignant Melanoma Mortality in the European Community associated with the impact of UV radiation exposure.

### Usage

    data(Mmmec)

### Format

A data frame with 354 observations on the following 6 variables.

nation
  a factor with levels `Belgium`, `W.Germany`, `Denmark`, `France`, `UK`, `Italy`, `Ireland`, `Luxembourg`, and `Netherlands`
region
  Region ID - a factor.
county
  County ID - a factor.
deaths
  Number of male deaths due to MM during 1971–1980
expected
  Number of expected deaths.
uvb
  Centered measure of the UVB dose reaching the earth's surface in each county.

### Source

http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/mmmec.html

### References

Langford, I.H., Bentham, G. and McDonald, A. 1998: Multilevel modelling of geographically aggregated health data: a case study on malignant melanoma mortality and UV exposure in the European community. Statistics in Medicine 17: 41-58.

### Examples

    str(Mmmec)
    summary(Mmmec)
    (fm1 <- lmer(deaths ~ offset(log(expected)) + uvb + (1|region),
                 Mmmec, poisson))
    (fm2 <- lmer(deaths ~ offset(log(expected)) + uvb + (1|region),
                     Mmmec, poisson, method = "Laplace")) # change to "AGQ" when available

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