mort: Male mortality in ages 40-60, nineteenth century
Description
Males born in the years 1800-1820 and surving at least 40 years in
the parish Skellefte<U+00E5> in northern
Sweden are followed from their fortieth birthday until death or the
sixtieth birthday, whichever comes first.
Usage
data(mort)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 2058 observations on the following 6 variables.
id
Personal identification number.
enter
Start of duration. Measured in years since the
fortieth birthday.
exit
End of duration. Measured in years since the
fortieth birthday.
event
a logical vector indicating death at end of interval.
birthdate
The birthdate in decimal form.
ses
Socio-economic status, a factor with levels
lower, upper
Details
The interesting explanatory
covariate is ses (socioeconomic status), which is a
time-varying covariate. This explains why several individuals are
representated by more than one record each. Left trucation and right
censoring are introduced this way.