Lifespan {VirtualPop}

Generates Individual Lifespan(s)

Description

Uses age-specific death rates to simulate length of life. The function generates age(s) at death and date(s) of death. The function uses the function rpexp() of the msm package and uniroot() of base R

Usage

Lifespan(data, ASDR, mort = NULL)

Arguments

data

Data frame with individual data. If the object "data" includes date of birth (bdated; decimal date), then the date of death is computed.

ASDR

Age-specific death rates

mort

Presence or absence of mortality. This parameter is optional. Default is TRUE. If mortality is (should be) absent, mort=FALSE.

Value

LS

Data frame with age(s) at death and date(s) of death

Examples

utils::data(dLH,package="VirtualPop")
utils::data(rates,package="VirtualPop")
d <- VirtualPop::Lifespan (dLH[1:5,1:5],ASDR=rates$ASDR)