mortDK


The <code>mortDK</code> data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.


datasets

Functions for demographic and epidemiological analysis in
the Lexis diagram, i.e. register and cohort follow-up data, in
particular representation, manipulation and simulation of multistate
data - the Lexis suite of functions, which includes interfaces to
mstate, etm and cmprsk packages.
Also contains functions for Age-Period-Cohort modeling and a
function for interval censored data and some useful functions for
tabulation and plotting, as well some epidemiological datasets.

Bendix Carstensen

A Package for Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

mortDK function

This data frame contains the following columns:
<table><tr><td>
<code>age</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Age class, 0--89, 90:90+. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>per</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Calendar period, 38: 1938--42, 43: 1943--47, ..., 88:1988-92. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>sex</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Sex, 1: male, 2: female. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>risk</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Number of person-years in the Danish population. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>dt</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Number of deaths. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>rt</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e.
<code>rt=1000*dt/risk</code> </td>
</tr><tr><td>
           </td>
</tr><tr><td> Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years: </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r1</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Infections </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r2</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Cancer. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r3</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Tumors, benign, unspecific nature. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r4</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Endocrine, metabolic. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r5</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Blood. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r6</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Nervous system, psychiatric. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r7</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Cerebrovascular. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r8</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Cardiac. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r9</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r10</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Liver, excl. cancer. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r11</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Digestive, other. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r12</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Genitourinary. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r13</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Ill-defined symptoms. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r14</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> All other, natural. </td>
</tr><tr><td>
<code>r15</code>: </td>
</tr><tr><td> Violent. </td>
</tr></table>

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Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original data. 
Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

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

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