bastaCensDat: Example of census data for BaSTA analysis.

In BaSTA: Age-Specific Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis from Incomplete Census or Capture-Recapture/Recovery Data

Example of census data for BaSTA analysis.

Description

Simulated census data (i.e., continuous observation of individuals) for Bayesian Survival Trajectory Analysis (BaSTA).

Usage

data("bastaCensDat")

Format

A data frame with 500 observations on the following 8 variables.

ID

ID for each individual.

Birth.Date

Dates of birth, formated as “YYYY-mm-dd”.

Min.Birth.Date

Minimum estimated dates of birth, formated as “YYYY-mm-dd”. If the date of birth is known, then Min.Birth.Date is equal to Birth.Date.

Max.Birth.Date

Maximum estimated dates of birth, formated as “YYYY-mm-dd”. If the date of birth is known, then Max.Birth.Date is equal to Birth.Date

Entry.Date

Dates of entry to the study, formated as “YYYY-mm-dd”.

Depart.Date

Dates of departure from the study, formated as “YYYY-mm-dd”.

Depart.Type

a character vector indicating whether the Depart.Date is because of death (i.e., “D”) or censored (i.e., “C”).

Sex

a character vector indicating the sex covariate.

Details

This dataset was created by stochastically simulating a hypothetical population with different mortality patterns between males and females and with proportional decreases in mortality as a function of a hypothetical continuous covariate (e.g. birth weight, average adult weight, etc.). The population was simulated for 40 years, with uniform times of birth within this period. Sex ratios were assumed to be 1:1. The time of death for each individual was inversed sampled from a Gompertz CDF of ages at death. The Gompertz parameters for females were: b_0 = -3 and b_1 = 0.15; and for males at b_0 = -2 and b_1 = 0.2.

The resulting dataset includes individuals where the data are left-truncated and/or right-censored. This is typical of capture mark recovery datasets.

Examples

## Load data:
data("bastaCensDat", package = "BaSTA")

## Check data consistency:
checkedData  <- DataCheck(bastaCensDat, dataType = "census")

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