beta

Standardized rates for calculation.

Weight for weighted least squares regression, default <code>NULL</code>.

<code>beta</code> will calculate the slope of an OLS regression using matrix algebra.
This will be the Slope Index of Inequality (SII). Weighted least squares slope is calculated
when weights are supplied.

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Tools for calculating deprivation measures and analysing health outcomes and mortality by deprivation.
Included are the functions: zscore() and w_pcntile() for developing deprivation measures and the functions smr(),
st_rate() and rii() for calculating standardized mortality ratios, direct standardized rates and Slope and Relative
indices of Inequality (SII and RII). Test data is included (dep_data and health_data).
The RII/SII are calculated following Pamuk ER (1985) <doi:10.1080/0032472031000141256>.
The confidence intervals for SII/RII are calculated using a multinomial distribution as described in Lumme et al (2015)
<doi:10.1007/s10742-015-0137-1>.

beta: Slope of an OLS regression

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