Mmmec                 package:mlmRev                 R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

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

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Mmmec)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

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

     _n_a_t_i_o_n a factor with levels 'Belgium', 'W.Germany', 'Denmark',
          'France', 'UK', 'Italy', 'Ireland', 'Luxembourg', and
          'Netherlands'

     _r_e_g_i_o_n Region ID - a factor.

     _c_o_u_n_t_y County ID - a factor.

     _d_e_a_t_h_s Number of male deaths due to MM during 1971-1980

     _e_x_p_e_c_t_e_d Number of expected deaths.

     _u_v_b Centered measure of the UVB dose reaching the earth's surface
          in each county.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     <URL: http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/mmmec.html>

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     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.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     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

