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Malignant Melanoma Mortality in the European Community associated with the impact of UV radiation exposure.
data(Mmmec)A data frame with 354 observations on the following 6 variables.
a factor with levels Belgium, W.Germany,
Denmark, France, UK, Italy, Ireland,
Luxembourg, and Netherlands
Region ID - a factor.
County ID - a factor.
Number of male deaths due to MM during 1971–1980
Number of expected deaths.
Centered measure of the UVB dose reaching the earth's surface in each county.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/learning/mmsoftware/data-rev.html
Langford, I.H., Bentham, G. and McDonald, A. 1998: Multilevel modelling of geographically aggregated health data: a case study on malignant melanoma mortality and UV exposure in the European community. Statistics in Medicine 17: 41-58.
str(Mmmec)
summary(Mmmec)
(fm1 <- glmer(deaths ~ uvb + (1|region), Mmmec, poisson, offset = log(expected)))