Calculate observed and expected disease incidence counts from a case file and population data.

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Documentation for package ‘diseasemapping’ version 0.5.3

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diseasemapping-package Disease Mapping
CanadaCancerRates Retreive cancer incidence rates from the Public Health Agency of Canada
casedata Data set contains the number of cases information
computeArea Compute areas of polygons
diseasemapping Disease Mapping
expandCensus Given population data at each census year and range of the years that the data spans, this function returns a new list of population data for each consective year assuming population is constant between two census years
formatCases Format the disease case data set
formatPopulation Format the population data set
formatPopulation.data.frame Format the population data set
formatPopulation.list Format the population data set
formatPopulation.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame Format the population data set
getBreaks Age Breaks
getRates Calculate the estimated coefficients of age and sex group from the glm model
getSMR Calculate the standardized mortality/morbility ratios
getSMR.data.frame Calculate the standardized mortality/morbility ratios
getSMR.list Calculate the standardized mortality/morbility ratios
getSMR.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame Calculate the standardized mortality/morbility ratios
getStdRate Calculate the standardized rate
mergeBugsData merge the result from bugs function
mergeBugsData.data.frame merge the result from bugs function
mergeBugsData.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame merge the result from bugs function
popdata Ontario 2006 population by census subdivision
referencepop Standard Canadian population data set from year 1991.