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Leukemia cases by census tract in New York

Source: R/datasets.R
leukemia.Rd

Leukemia cases by census tract in New York

Usage

data(leukemia)

Format

An undirected tidygraph::tbl_graph() graph object, made up of a node table and an edge table.

The node table has columns:

  • population (numeric): TODO

  • cases (numeric): TODO

  • censustract_fips (list of character vectors): TODO

and the edge table has columns:

  • from (int): Id of source census tract

  • to (int): Id of neighboring census tract

Source

Extracted from the SpatialEpi package on July 29, 2022. See SpatialEpi::NYleukemia for details, as well as Wakefield and Kim (2013).

References

Wakefield, J., and A. Kim. "A Bayesian Model for Cluster Detection." Biostatistics 14, no. 4 (September 1, 2013): 752–65. https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxt001.