ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the risk of lip cancer in males in Scotland, UK, using the R-integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) package. It describes the model for the data, and detail the required steps to fit the model and obtain the disease risk estimates using R-INLA. The AFF variable is related to exposure to sunlight which is a risk factor for lip cancer. The data also contain a map of the Scotland counties. The data contain, for each of the Scotland counties, the number of observed and expected lip cancer cases between 1975 and 1980, and a variable that indicates the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture, fishing, or forestry. Results are shown by means of tables, static plots created with ggplot2, and interactive maps created with leaflet. The chapter shows how to calculate exceedance probabilities of relative risk being greater than a given threshold value.
