Biograph (version 1.0)

Lexispoints: Plot observations in Lexis diagram

Description

Plots observations in age-time diagram for each category of categorical covariate

Usage

Lexispoints(data, transition, title1, cov)

Arguments

data

Biograph object

transition

The transition selected, e.g. "NJ" in GLHS data

title1

Title of Lexis diagram

cov

Covariate. Observations are plotted for each category of this covariate. If observations should be plotted for the total sample population, cov = NA

Value

• Lcoh
  Lexis object created to plot the observations

References

For Lexis diagram, see Carstensen (2009) and the Epi pacakge

See Also

Lexislines.episodes

Examples

#  Example 1: ages at labour market entry, by sex
  library (Epi)
  data(GLHS)
  y <- Parameters(GLHS)
  z <- Lexispoints (GLHS,"NJ","Calendar time and age at labour market entry","sex")

#  Example 2: ages at first birth among married women, by religious denomination
  data(NLOG98)
  y <- Parameters (NLOG98)
  z <- Lexispoints (NLOG98,"MK","Calendar time and age at first birth (married women)","kerk")
#  Example 3: ages at leaving home, by birth cohort (any destination)
  z <- Lexispoints (NLOG98,"H*","Calendar time and age at leaving parental home","cohort")