incidence {poplab} | R Documentation

## Age-specific incidence rates of disease

### Description

A tab-separated text-file storing age-specific incidence rates for a defined calendar period.

### Usage

    incidence

### Format

A matrix.

(a) The first row:
  file header consisting of the keyword `age` and the years for which incidence rates are available.
  For example, it could look like

  `age` | `1955` | `1956` | `1957` | ... | `2002`

(b) The first column:
  age groups (e.g. from 0 to 100)
(c) The remaining columns:
  age-specific incidence rates of disease

### Source

CANCERMondial Statistical Information System [database online]: International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available at: http://www-dep.iarc.fr/

[Package poplab version 1.0.2 Index]