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MortHump (version 0.2)

Measure the Young Adult Mortality Hump

Description

Fit diverse models of mortality graduation, parametric or not, in order to isolate the hump that is often observed in the age-specific death rates during adolescence and early adulthood in human populations. Can handle either all-cause or cause-specific data. A description of the methods used can be found in Remund A., Camarda C. and Riffe T. (2018) Analyzing the Young Adult Mortality Hump in R with MortHump. MPIDR Technical Report TR-2018-3.

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install.packages('MortHump')

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Version

0.2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Adrien Remund

Last Published

January 24th, 2018

Functions in MortHump (0.2)

AKq02a0

AKq02a0 estimates a0 using the Andreev-Kingkade rule of thumb.
CHE1950f

Population and Mortality Data for Swiss Females in 1950
CHE2010m

Population and Mortality Data for Swiss Males in 2010
HCD2MH

Format data from the Human Cause-of-Death Database for use in the MortHump package
MortHump-package

MortHump
USA2000m

Population and Mortality Data by cause of death for American Males in 2000
HMD2MH

Format data from the Human Mortality Database for use in the MortHump package
LT

A function to build lifetables and extract certain lifetable statistics from data.
AKm02a0

AKm02a0 estimates a0 using the Andreev-Kinkade rule of thumb.
AKm02q0

AKm02q0 derive q0 from m0 using the Andreev-Kingkade rule of thumb.
axEstimate

axEstimate A function to estimate Chiang's a(x) values using a variety of methods.
axKeyfitz

A Nathan Keyfitz approximation of Chiang's a(x), average number of years lived by persons dying in the interval x,x+n.
axMidpoint

axMidpoint approximates a(x) using interval midpoints
axPreston

axPreston approximation of a(x) using a few rules of thumb outlined by Preston et al (2001)
axSchoen

axSchoen Schoen's MDAT approximation of Chiang's a(x), average number of years lived by persons dying in the interval x, x + n.
codgroup

Semi-automatized grouping of causes of deaths
plot.codhump

Plot diagnostic for a codhump object
plot.morthump

Plot diagnostic for a morthump object
summary.morthump

Summary method for morthump models
unabridge

Split abridged death counts into single-age data
codhump

Decompose the contributions to the young adult mortality hump by cause
coef.morthump

Extract the coefficients from a morthump object
sse.fit

Fit a Sum of Smooth Exponentials
summary.codhump

Summary method for codhump models
xtp

Extrapolates non-extinct cohorts
confint.morthump

Confidence Intervals for morthump fit
disp

Generate a grid layout for panel plots
morthump

Isolate the young adult mortality hump from a set of age-specific mortality rates
plot.codgroup

Plot diagnostic for a codgroup object