apc.lines: Plot APC-estimates in an APC-frame.

Description

When an APC-frame has been produced by apc.frame, this function draws a set of estimates from an APC-fit in the frame. An optional drift parameter can be added to the period parameters and subtracted from the cohort and age parameters.

Usage

apc.lines( A, P, C,
        scale = c("log","ln","rates","inc","RR"),
    frame.par = NULL,
        drift = 0,
           c0 = median( C[,1] ),
           a0 = median( A[,1] ),
           p0 = c0 + a0,
           ci = rep( FALSE, 3 ),
          lwd = c(3,1,1),
          lty = 1,
          col = "black",
         type = "l",
        knots = FALSE,
          ... )

Arguments

Age effects. A 4-column matrix with columns age, age-specific rates, lower and upper c.i. If A is of class apc (see apc.fit, P, C, c0,

Period effects. Rate-ratios. Same form as for the age-effects.

Cohort effects. Rate-ratios. Same form as for the age-effects.

scale

Are effects given on a log-scale? Character variable, one of "log", "ln", "rates", "inc", "RR". If "log" or "ln" it is assumed that effects are log(r

frame.par

2-element vector with the cohort-period offset and RR multiplicator. This will typically be the result from the call of apc.frame. See this for details.

drift

The drift parameter to be added to the period effect. If scale="log" this is assumed to be on the log-scale, otherwise it is assumed to be a multiplicative factor per unit of the first columns of A, P

The cohort where the drift is assumed to be 0; the subtracted drift effect is drift*(C[,1]-c0).

The age where the drift is assumed to be 0.

The period where the drift is assumed to be 0.

Should confidence interval be drawn. Logical or character. If character, any occurrence of "a" or "A" produces confidence intervals for the age-effect. Similarly for period and cohort.

lwd

Line widths for estimates, lower and upper confidence limits.

lty

Linetypes for the three effects.

col

Colours for the three effects.

type

What type of lines / points should be used.

knots

Should knots from the model be shown?

...

Further parameters to be transmitted to matlines used for plotting the three sets of curves.

Value

A list of three matrices with the effects plotted is returned invisibly.

Details

The drawing of three effects in an APC-frame is a rather trivial task, and the main purpose of the utility is to provide a function that easily adds the functionality of adding a drift so that several sets of lines can be easily produced in the same frame.