excessmort (version 0.8.2)

Excess Mortality

Description

Implementation of method for estimating excess mortality and other health related outcomes from weekly or daily count data described in Acosta and Irizarry (2021) "A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality".

Copy Link

Version

Install

install.packages('excessmort')

Monthly Downloads

274

Version

0.8.2

License

Artistic-2.0

Maintainer

Rafael Irizarry

Last Published

December 5th, 2025

Functions in excessmort (0.8.2)

world_counts

Weekly death counts for several countries

louisiana_counts

Louisiana daily mortality

puerto_rico_icd

Puerto Rico daily mortality by cause of death

puerto_rico_counts

Puerto Rico daily mortality

approx_demographics

Interpolate demographic data

collapse_age_dist

Callapse age groups into broader ones

noleap_yday

Compute year of the day ingoring Feb 29

excess_model

Fit excess count model

excess_plot

Plot results from fitted excess count model

excess_stats

Excess counts in an interval

excess_cumulative

Compute cumulative excess deaths

compute_counts

Compute counts

compute_expected

Compute expected counts for each day

cook_records

Cook County Medical Examiner Records

Weekly death counts for each USA state

expected_diagnostic

Diagnostic Plots for Model Fit

fit_ar

Fit an ar model to residuals from expected counts

new_jersey_counts

New Jersey daily mortality

get_demographics

Get demographic data from Census