GPRMortality (version 0.1.0)

data.mortality: age-sex specific mortality rates data set

Description

A data frame of mortality rates using as data likelihood of the GPR model.

This data set for child mortality rates should contain the year, sex, age_cat, location, completeness of each mortality rate and population of each raw data.

Usage

data("data.mortality")

Format

A data frame with 395 observations on the following 7 variables.

sex

a numeric vector

age_cat

a numeric vector

location

a numeric vector

year

a numeric vector

pop

a numeric vector

mortality

a numeric vector

completeness

a numeric vector

Details

This is a real data gathered in Iran including 31 provinces and 26 years for age-sex specific and adult mortality.

References

1-Mehdipour P, Navidi I, Parsaeian M, Mohammadi Y, Moradi Lakeh M, Rezaei Darzi E, Nourijelyani K, Farzadfar F. . Application of Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) in estimating under-five mortality levels and trends in Iran 1990-2013, study protocol. Archives of Iranian medicine. 2014;17(3):189.

2-Mohammadi Y, Parsaeian M, Mehdipour P, Khosravi A, Larijani B, Sheidaei A, et al. Measuring Iran's success in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4: a systematic analysis of under-5 mortality at national and subnational levels from 1990 to 2015. The Lancet Global Health. 2017;5(5):e537-e44.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(data.mortality)
## maybe str(data.mortality) ; plot(data.mortality) ...
# }