popEpi (version 0.3.0)

ICSS: Age standardisation weights from the ICSS scheme.

Description

Contains three sets age-standardisation weights for age-standardized survival (net, relative or observed).

format

data.table with columns

• age - lower bound of the age group
• ICSS1 - first set of weights, sums to 100 000
• ICSS2 - second set of weights, sums to 100 000
• ICSS3 - third set of weights, sums to 100 000

source

http://seer.cancer.gov/stdpopulations/survival.html{ICSS weights (US National Cancer Institute website)}

Corazziari, Isabella, Mike Quinn, and Riccardo Capocaccia. "Standard cancer patient population for age standardising survival ratios." European Journal of Cancer 40.15 (2004): 2307-2316.

Examples

## aggregate weights to a subset of age groups
data(ICSS)
cut <- c(0, 30, 50, 70, Inf)
agegr <- cut(ICSS$age, cut, right = FALSE)
aggregate(ICSS1~agegr, data = ICSS, FUN = sum)