merge.Lexis

Merge additional variables from a data frame into a Lexis object.

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

Bendix Carstensen

Statistical Analysis in Epidemiology

Martyn Plummer

Esa Laara

Michael Hills

merge.Lexis function

<dl> <dt>x</dt>
<dd>an object of class <code>Lexis</code></dd> <dt>y</dt>
<dd>a data frame</dd> <dt>id</dt>
<dd>the name of the variable in <code>y</code> to use for matching
 against the variable <code>lex.id</code> in <code>x</code>.</dd> <dt>by</dt>
<dd>if matching is not done by id, a vector of variable names
 common to both <code>x</code> and <code>y</code></dd> <dt>...</dt>
<dd>optional arguments to be passed to <code>merge.data.frame</code></dd></dl>

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Merge a Lexis object with a data frame — merge.Lexis

<dl>

 <dt>x</dt>
<dd>an object of class <code>Lexis</code></dd>

 <dt>y</dt>
<dd>a data frame</dd>

 <dt>id</dt>
<dd>the name of the variable in <code>y</code> to use for matching
 against the variable <code>lex.id</code> in <code>x</code>.</dd>

 <dt>by</dt>
<dd>if matching is not done by id, a vector of variable names
 common to both <code>x</code> and <code>y</code></dd>

 <dt>...</dt>
<dd>optional arguments to be passed to <code>merge.data.frame</code></dd>

</dl>

merge.Lexis: Merge a Lexis object with a data frame

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