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cohorts: Age, Period and Cohort Effects for Vital Rates

Description

Number of prostate cancer deaths and midperiod population for nonwhites in the USA by age and period. The cohort index $k$ is related to age and period indices ($i$ and $j$, respectively) by $k = j + I - i$, where $I = max(i)$ (Holford, 1983, Table 2).

Usage

data(cohorts)

Arguments

References

Holford, T.R., 1983. The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics 39, 311-324.