Years of Smoking and Lung Cancer Deaths in Men

This dataset, SmokingLungCancer_df, is a data frame containing data on man-years of risk and observed number of lung cancer deaths among men. The data includes information about the years of smoking, pack-years, number of cigarettes smoked per day, and the number of deaths due to lung cancer.

Usage

data(SmokingLungCancer_df)

Format

A data frame with 63 observations and 4 variables:

yrs_smk

Years of smoking, represented as a factor with 9 levels.

pys

Pack-years of smoking (numeric).

num_cigs

Number of cigarettes smoked per day, represented as a factor with 7 levels.

deaths

Number of deaths due to lung cancer (numeric).

Source

Data taken from the R4HCR package. Data originally from Table 24-4, page 702 of Kleinbaum et al (1988).

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'SmokingLungCancer_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the OncoDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix '_df' indicates that the dataset is a data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.