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InferenceSMR (version 1.0.2)

incidences: Incidences calculations.

Description

A function to calculate incidence rates for every combination of age and calendar years.

Usage

incidences(age_min, age_max, year_min, year_max, follow_up,
start_age, start_year, case)

Value

A matrix whose first column is the number of person-years at risk, the second column is the calendar years, the third column is the ages and the fourth column is the incidence rates.

Arguments

age_min

The age at which incidences should begin to be calculated.

age_max

The age at which incidences should stop to be calculated.

year_min

The calendar year at which indicidences should begin to be calculated.

year_max

The calendar year at which incidences should stop to be calculated.

follow_up

A vector of dimension n of follow-up times as non-participants.

start_age

A vector of dimension n of ages at the begining of the follow-up.

start_year

A vector of dimension n of calendar years at the begining of the follow-up.

case

A vector of dimension n where each component equals 1 if the follow-up ended because the individual was infected with the decease and 0 otherwise.

Author

Denis Talbot, Thierry Duchesne, Jacques Brisson, Nathalie Vandal.

Details

This function can be used to obtain incidences for the functions est.expDeath, var.expDeath and inference.SMR. A complete example of usage is provided in the help page of the screening dataset.

See Also

est.expDeath, var.expDeath, inference.SMR, screening