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stattable.funs: Special functions for use in stat.table

Description

These functions may be used as contents arguments to the function stat.table. They are defined internally in stat.table and have no independent existence.

Usage

count(id) ratio(d,y,scale=1, na.rm=TRUE) percent(...)

Arguments

id
numeric vector in which identical values identify the same individual.
d, y
numeric vectors of equal length (d for Deaths, y for person-Years)
scale
a scalar giving a value by which the ratio should be multiplied
na.rm
a logical value indicating whether NA values should be stripped before computation proceeds.
...
a list of variables taken from the index argument to stat.table

Value

When used as a contents argument to stat.table, these functions create the following tables:

See Also

stat.table