Skin Cancer in Texas and Minnesota

Keywords: Logistic regression, Poisson regression.

Description

The data show the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer among women in Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The towns are coded 0 for St Paul and 1 for Forth Worth.

One would expect sun exposure to be greater in Texas than in Minnesota.

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Data File (tab delimited text)

Source

Kleinbaum, D., Kupper, L., and Muller, K. (1989). Applied regression analysis and other multivariate methods. PWS-Kent, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hand, D. et al, (1994). A handbook of small data sets. Chapman and Hall, London.

Analysis

Can use logistic regression for Cases/Population, or use Cases as a Poisson response with log(Population) as offset.