Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Data 1979-1984
SUMMARY:
The
sids2
data frame contains counts of sudden infant deaths for 1979 to
1984 along with related information in 100 counties in North Carolina.
DATA DESCRIPTION:
The data frame contains the following columns:
ARGUMENTS:
- id
-
an identifying number for the county (in the range 1 to 100).
- easting
-
the x coordinate of the county relative to an arbitrary origin, where
the x-axis is parallel to the latitude.
- northing
-
the y coordinate of the county relative to an arbitrary origin, where
the y-axis is parallel to the longitude.
- sid
-
the number of SIDS deaths in the county during the years 1979 to 1984.
- births
-
the number of births in the county during years 1979 to 1984.
- nwbirths
-
the number of nonwhite births, 1979 to 1984.
- group
-
a grouping of the counties to one of 12 parcels of contiguous counties.
SOURCE:
The data are listed and analyzed in Cressie and Chan (1989).
REFERENCES:
Cressie, Noel and Chan, Ngai H. (1989).
Spatial modeling of regional variables.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
84, 393-401.
SEE ALSO:
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