getStdRate {diseasemapping}

Calculate the standardized rate

Description

A function to calculate the standard rate according to the Canadian standard population data set from year 1991.

Usage

getStdRate(relativeRate, model, referencePopulation, scale = 1e+05)

Arguments

relativeRate

the relative cancer rate calculated by glmmBUGS of different sex and age group of people from ontario .

model

Model to standardize to, either glm model output or a vector of rates by age and sex group

referencePopulation

population to standardize to

scale

compute the expected rate per ‘scale’ number of people.

Value

numeric value, incidence rate in reference population.

Author(s)

Lutong Zhou

Examples

data(kentucky)
kentucky = terra::unwrap(kentucky)

kentucky2 = getSMR(kentucky, larynxRates, larynx, 
		regionCode="County")

data(referencepop)
newpop <- getStdRate(kentucky2$SMR, larynxRates, referencepop, scale=100000)

newpop[1:10]