mortDK                  package:Epi                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'mortDK' data frame has 1820 rows and 21 columns.

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

        'age':  Age class, 0-89, 90:90+.
        'per':  Calendar period, 38: 1938-42, 43: 1943-47, ..., 88:1988-92.
        'sex':  Sex, 1: male, 2: female.
       'risk':  Number of person-years in the Danish population.
         'dt':  Number of deaths.
         'rt':  Overall mortality rate in cases per 1000 person-years, i.e. 'rt=1000*dt/risk'
                Cause-specific mortality rates in cases per 1000 person-years:
         'r1':  Infections
         'r2':  Cancer.
         'r3':  Tumors, benign, unspecific nature.
         'r4':  Endocrine, metabolic.
         'r5':  Blood.
         'r6':  Nervous system, psychiatric.
         'r7':  Cerebrovascular.
         'r8':  Cardiac.
         'r9':  Respiratory diseases, excl. cancer.
        'r10':  Liver, excl. cancer.
        'r11':  Digestive, other.
        'r12':  Genitourinary.
        'r13':  Ill-defined symptoms.
        'r14':  All other, natural.
        'r15':  Violent.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Statistics Denmark, National board of health provided original
     data.  Michael Andersson grouped the causes of death.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'thoro', 'gmortDK'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(mortDK)

