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Epi (version 0.6.2)

A package for statistical analysis in epidemiology.

Description

Functions for demographic and epidemiological analysis in the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up data. Also some useful functions for tabulation and plotting. Contains some epidemiological datasets.

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install.packages('Epi')

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Version

0.6.2

License

GPL Version 2 or newer.

Maintainer

Bendix Carstensen

Last Published

October 1st, 2024

Functions in Epi (0.6.2)

Functions to convert character, factor and various date objects into a number, and vice versa.

Generate a nested case-control study

Births in a London Hospital

A case-control study of endometrial cancer

Cut follow-up time at a failure time.

Reorder and combine levels of a factor

Projection of columns of a matrix.

Fit an Age-Period-Cohort model to tabular data.

Compute dates/ages for life lines in a Lexis diagram

Projection of a model matrix on to the orthogonal complement of a trend.

Compute linear functions of parameters with s.e.

Create percentages in a table

Compute cumulative sum of estimates.

Split follow-up time along a timescale

Plot a Lexis diagram

Plot the estimates from a fitted Age-Period-Cohort model

Thorotrast Study

Determine the intersection between follow-up intervals and a fixed interval.

Tables of summary statistics

Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.

Calculate floated variances

Mantel-Haenszel analyses of cohort and case-control studies

Fit a floating trend to a factor in generalized linear model

Compute confidence limits for a difference of two independent proportions.

Function to cut the follow-up in cohort at a point in time.

Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.

Graphical display of a 2-way contingency table

Special functions for use in stat.table

Draw life lines in a Lexis diagram.

Nice breakpoints

Male lung cancer incidence in Denmark

Produce an empty frame for display of parameter-estimates from Age-Period-Cohort-models.

Cuts follow-up time at multiple failure times.

Function to compute and draw ROC-curves.

Plot estimates with confidence limits

Function to group a variable in intervals.

Split follow-up time in cohort studies.

Plot APC-estimates in an APC-frame.

Bladder cancer mortality in Italian males

Analysis of a two by two table

Functions to plot rates from a table classified by age and calendar time (period)

A 1:1 subset of the endometrial cancer case-control study

Population mortality rates for Denmark in 5-years age groups.

Bereavement in an elderly cohort

Diet and heart data

A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales

Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak 1996 in Denmark.

An unmatched case-control study of leprosy incidence