Biograph (version 1.0)

RateTable: Table for rate calculation

Description

Ratetable produces a table of transitions and exposure times for calculating transition rates (occurrence-exposure rates)

Usage

RateTable(survey, occup, trans)

Arguments

survey

Input data

occup

Object produced by the Occup function

trans

Object produced by the Trans function

Value

• Stable
  The table of transitions and exposure times
• censored_by_age
  Number of censored cases by age and state at censoring

Details

RateTable is one of the key functions of the package. It provides in table format the data needed for determining transition rates by origin, destination and age

References

Willekens (2011)

Examples

data (GLHS)
 z<- Parameters (GLHS)
 occup <- Occup(GLHS)
 ist <- statesequence.ind (GLHS)
 trans <- Trans (GLHS,seq.ind=ist)
 w <- RateTable(GLHS, occup, trans)