set.upperage

Computes demographic rates by combining age groups.

manip

Functions for demographic analysis including lifetable
calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of
mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and
stochastic population forecasting.

Rob Hyndman

demography

Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

Heather Booth

Leonie Tickle

John Maindonald

Simon Wood

R Core Team 

set.upperage function

<dl><dt>data</dt>
<dd>Demogdata object such as created using <code>read.demogdata</code> or <code>smooth.demogdata</code>.</dd>
<dt>max.age</dt>
<dd>Upper age group. Ages beyond this are combined into the upper age group.</dd></dl>

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Combine the upperages of a demogdata object. — set.upperage

<dl>

<dt>data</dt>
<dd>Demogdata object such as created using <code>read.demogdata</code> or <code>smooth.demogdata</code>.</dd>


<dt>max.age</dt>
<dd>Upper age group. Ages beyond this are combined into the upper age group.</dd>

</dl>

set.upperage: Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.

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