relsurv (version 2.2)

joinrate: Join ratetables

Description

The function joins two or more objects organized as ratetable by adding a new dimension.

Usage

joinrate(tables,dim.name="country")

Arguments

tables

a list of ratetables. If names are given, they are included as dimnames.

dim.name

the name of the added dimension.

Value

An object of class ratetable.

Details

This function joins two or more ratetable objects by adding a new dimension. The cutpoints of all the rate tables are compared and only the common intervals kept. If the intervals defined by the cutpoints are not of the same length, a warning message is displayed. Each rate table must have 3 dimensions, i.e. age, sex and year (the order is not important).

References

Package: Pohar M., Stare J. (2006) "Relative survival analysis in R." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 81: 272-278.

Relative survival: Pohar, M., Stare, J. (2007) "Making relative survival analysis relatively easy." Computers in biology and medicine, 37: 1741-1749.

See Also

ratetable, transrate.hld, transrate.hmd, transrate.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#newpop <- joinrate(list(Arizona=survexp.az,Florida=survexp.fl,
#                   Minnesota=survexp.mn),dim.name="state")
# }