apc (version 2.0.0)

data.RH.mortality: 2-sample mortality data.

Description

Function that organises mortality data from Riebler and Held (2010) in apc.data.list format.

The data set is taken from the supplementary data of Riebler and Held (2010). Mortality data for women in Denmark and Norway

The original source was Jacobsen et al. (2004).

The data set is in "AP"-format.

Usage

data.RH.mortality.dk()
data.RH.mortality.no()

Value

The value is a list in apc.data.list format.

response

matrix of cases

dose

matrix of cases/rates

data.format

logical equal to "AP". Data organised with age-groups in rows and period-groups in columns.

age1

numeric equal to 0.

per1

numeric equal to 1960.

coh1

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

unit

numeric equal to 5. This is the width of the age and period groups.

per.zero

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

per.max

NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"

time.adjust

0. Thus age=0 in period=1960 corresponds to cohort=1960-0+0=1960, and indeed the centers of the age and period groups, that is age=2 and period=1962 translate into cohort=1962-2+0=1960.

label

character. "RH mortality Denmark" or "RH mortality Norway".

References

Jacobsen, R, von Euler, M, Osler, M, Lynge, E and Keiding, N (2004) Women's death in Scandinavia - what makes Denmark different? European Journal of Epidemiology 19, 117-121.

Riebler, A and Held, L. (2010) The analysis of heterogeneous time trends in multivariate age-period-cohort models. Biostatistics 11, 57--59. Download: Open access, Supplementary material.

See Also

General description of apc.data.list format.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
#########################
##	It is convient to construct a data variable

data	<- data.US.prostate.cancer()

##	To see the content of the data

data
# }