popEpi (version 0.3.1)

ICSS: Age standardisation weights from the ICSS scheme.

Description

Contains three sets age-standardisation weights for age-standardized survival (net, relative or observed).

Format

data.table with columns

• age - lower bound of the age group
• ICSS1 - first set of weights, sums to 100 000
• ICSS2 - second set of weights, sums to 100 000
• ICSS3 - third set of weights, sums to 100 000

Source

ICSS weights (US National Cancer Institute website) Corazziari, Isabella, Mike Quinn, and Riccardo Capocaccia. "Standard cancer patient population for age standardising survival ratios." European Journal of Cancer 40.15 (2004): 2307-2316.

Examples

## aggregate weights to a subset of age groups
data(ICSS)
cut <- c(0, 30, 50, 70, Inf)
agegr <- cut(ICSS$age, cut, right = FALSE)
aggregate(ICSS1~agegr, data = ICSS, FUN = sum)