conditional_death_prob {actLifer}

Conditional Probability of Death at Age x

Description

Adds a new column called ConditionalProbDeath to the dataset that was input. This column represents the probability of death given the age group for each age group. In other words, the probability a person in a given age group will die before their next birthday.

Usage

conditional_death_prob(data, age, pop, deaths)

Arguments

data

The mortality dataset, includes an age grouping variable

age

The age grouping variable, must be cateogrical

pop

Population of each age group, must be numeric

deaths

The number of deaths at each age group, must be numeric

Value

Data frame that was input with an added column, ConditionalProbDeath.

Examples

# This function will add a ConditionalProbDeath column to the dataset
conditional_death_prob(mortality2, "age_group", "population", "deaths")