A Study of the Incidence of Kidney Cancer in the United States

The counties in which the incidents of kidney cancer is lowest are mostly rural, sparsely populated and located in traditionally republican states. These ailing counties tend to be in traditional Republican states such as the midwest, the south and the west. The witty statisticians howard wyner and harris wirling commented that it is both easy and tempting to infer that their low cancer rates are directly due to the clean living of the rural life style. No air pollution, no water pollution, access to fresh food, without adjectives. This makes perfect sense. Now consider the counties inWhich the incidence of kidney cancer was highest. It is easy to infer that they high cancer rates might be