get_demographics

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".

Rafael Irizarry

excessmort

Excess Mortality

Rolando Acosta

Mónica Robles-Fontán

Ferenci Tamás

get_demographics function

<dl><dt>geography</dt>
<dd>state or county</dd>
<dt>state</dt>
<dd>name of the state</dd>
<dt>county</dt>
<dd>name of the county</dd>
<dt>years</dt>
<dd>vector of years for which we obtain data</dd>
<dt>vars</dt>
<dd>names of variables that define strat of which we want population estimates</dd></dl>

Arguments

Get demographic data from Census — get_demographics

<dl>

<dt>geography</dt>
<dd>state or county</dd>


<dt>state</dt>
<dd>name of the state</dd>


<dt>county</dt>
<dd>name of the county</dd>


<dt>years</dt>
<dd>vector of years for which we obtain data</dd>


<dt>vars</dt>
<dd>names of variables that define strat of which we want population estimates</dd>

</dl>

get_demographics: Get demographic data from Census

Description

Usage

Arguments