Breast Cancer Data

Description

Age-specific breast cancer rates for Australian females with 9 age groups (45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80-84, 85+) from 1921 to 2001.

Usage

data(Cancerrate)

Format

An object of class fts.

Source

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) website at http://www.aihw.gov.au/cancer/data/index.cfm.

References

B. Erbas and R. J. Hyndman and D. Gertig (2007) "Forecasting age-specific breast cancer mortality using functional data models", Statistics in Medicine, 26(2), 458-470.

R. J. Hyndman and M. S. Ullah (2007) "Robust forecasting of mortality and fertility rates: A functional data approach", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51(10), 4942-4956.

Examples

plot(Cancerrate)

Results