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.

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