| data.RH.mortality {apc} | R Documentation |
2-sample mortality data.
Description
Function that organises mortality data from Riebler and Held (2010) in apc.data.list format.
The data set is taken from the supplementary data of Riebler and Held (2010). Mortality data for women in Denmark and Norway
The original source was Jacobsen et al. (2004).
The data set is in "AP"-format.
Usage
data.RH.mortality.dk()
data.RH.mortality.no()Value
The value is a list in apc.data.list format.
response |
matrix of cases |
dose |
matrix of cases/rates |
data.format |
logical equal to "AP". Data organised with age-groups in rows and period-groups in columns. |
age1 |
numeric equal to 0. |
per1 |
numeric equal to 1960. |
coh1 |
NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP" |
unit |
numeric equal to 5. This is the width of the age and period groups. |
per.zero |
NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP" |
per.max |
NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP" |
time.adjust |
0. Thus age=0 in period=1960 corresponds to cohort=1960-0+0=1960, and indeed the centers of the age and period groups, that is age=2 and period=1962 translate into cohort=1962-2+0=1960. |
label |
character. "RH mortality Denmark" or "RH mortality Norway". |
Author(s)
Bent Nielsen <bent.nielsen@nuffield.ox.ac.uk> 17 Sep 2016
Source
Riebler and Held (2010), supplementary material.
References
Jacobsen, R, von Euler, M, Osler, M, Lynge, E and Keiding, N (2004) Women's death in Scandinavia - what makes Denmark different? European Journal of Epidemiology 19, 117-121.
Riebler, A and Held, L. (2010) The analysis of heterogeneous time trends in multivariate age-period-cohort models. Biostatistics 11, 57–59. Download: Open access, Supplementary material.
See Also
General description of apc.data.list format.
Examples
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