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NYleukemia

Upstate New York Leukemia Data

Description

Census tract level (n=281) leukemia data for the 8 counties in upstate New York from 1978-1982, paired with population data from the 1980 census.

Usage

data(NYleukemia)

Format

List with 5 items:

`geo`	table of the FIPS code, longitude, and latitude of the geographic centroid of each census tract
`data`	table of the FIPS code, number of cases, and population of each census tract
`spatial.polygon`	object of class SpatialPolygons (See SpatialPolygons-class) containing a map of the study region
`surrounded`	row IDs of the 4 census tracts that are completely surrounded by the `surrounding` census tracts
`surrounding`	row IDs of the 4 census tracts that completely surround the `surrounded` census tracts

Source

http://www.sph.emory.edu/~lwaller/ch4index.htm

References

Turnbull, B. W. et al (1990) Monitoring for clusters of disease: application to leukemia incidence in upstate New York American Journal of Epidemiology, 132, 136–143

Examples

if (0) {
data(NYleukemia)
  population <- NYleukemia$data$population
  cases <- NYleukemia$data$cases
  mapNY <- GetMap(center=c(lon=-76.00365, lat=42.67456), destfile = "NYstate.png",
  maptype = "mobile", zoom=9)
  ColorMap(100*cases/population, mapNY, NYleukemia$spatial.polygon, add = FALSE,
  alpha = 0.35, log = TRUE, location = "topleft")
 }

RgoogleMaps

Overlays on Static Maps

v1.4.5.3

GPL

Authors

Markus Loecher

Initial release

2020-02-12