Measure the Young Adult Mortality Hump

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Documentation for package ‘MortHump’ version 0.1

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MortHump-package Measure the Young Adult Mortality Hump
AKm02a0 'AKm02a0' estimates a0 using the Andreev-Kinkade rule of thumb.
AKm02q0 AKm02q0 derive q0 from m0 using the Andreev-Kingkade rule of thumb.
AKq02a0 'AKq02a0' estimates a0 using the Andreev-Kingkade rule of thumb.
axEstimate axEstimate A function to estimate Chiang's a(x) values using a variety of methods.
axKeyfitz A Nathan Keyfitz approximation of Chiang's a(x), average number of years lived by persons dying in the interval x,x+n.
axMidpoint axMidpoint approximates a(x) using interval midpoints
axPreston axPreston approximation of a(x) using a few rules of thumb outlined by Preston et al (2001)
axSchoen axSchoen Schoen's MDAT approximation of Chiang's a(x), average number of years lived by persons dying in the interval x, x + n.
CHE1950f Population and Mortality Data for Swiss Males in 2010
CHE2010m Population and Mortality Data for Swiss Males in 2010
codgroup Semi-automatized grouping of causes of deaths
codhump Decompose the contributions to the young adult mortality hump by cause
coef.morthump Extract the coefficients from a morthump object
confint.morthump Confidence Intervals for morthump fit
disp Generate a grid layout for panel plots
HCD2MH Format data from the Human Cause-of-Death Database for use in the MortHump package
HMD2MH Format data from the Human Mortality Database for use in the MortHump package
LT A function to build lifetables and extract certain lifetable statistics from data.
MortHump Measure the Young Adult Mortality Hump
morthump Isolate the young adult mortality hump from a set of age-specific mortality rates
plot.codgroup Plot diagnostic for a codgroup object
plot.codhump Plot diagnostic for a codhump object
plot.morthump Plot diagnostic for a morthump object
print.summary.codhump Summary method for codhump models
print.summary.morthump Summary method for morthump models
sse.fit Fit a Sum of Smooth Exponentials
summary.codhump Summary method for codhump models
summary.morthump Summary method for morthump models
unabridge Split abridged death counts into single-age data
USA2000m Population and Mortality Data by cause of death for American Males in 2000
xtp Extrapolates non-extinct cohorts