rrcalc: Estimation of relative risk

In HEAT: Health Effects of Air Pollution and Temperature (HEAT)

Description

rrcalc caculates relative risks below and above a threshold. Relative risks and the 95% C.I.s of lower unit and upper unit based on the threshold are estimated.

Usage

rrcalc(object, rrunit = 1)

Arguments

object	a fitted threshpt object produced by threshpt().
rrunit	Unit of relative risk.

Details

In GLM with log link, the coefficients of the exposure are equal to log values of RR. rrcalc gives relative risks in log link GLM, particularly, Poisson regression model.

Value

The results of "<Threshold" mean that the relative risk and 95% confidence interval when the exposure increases by rrunit below threshold. The results of ">=Threshold" mean those when the exposure increases by rrunit above threshold.
RR = exp(beta*rrunit) and 95% C.I = exp((beta-1.96*s.e(beta), beta+1.96*s.e(beta))*rrunit)

Author(s)

Youn-Hee Lim, Il-Sang Ohn, and Ho Kim

Examples

# read the Seoul data set and create lag variables
data(mort)
seoul = read6city(mort, 11)
seoul_lag = lagdata(seoul, c("meantemp", "mintemp", "meanpm10", "meanhumi"), 5)

# find a optimal threshold and conduct piecewise linear regression
mythresh = threshpt(nonacc ~ meantemp_m3 + meanpm10_m2 +  meanhumi + ns(sn, 4*10) + factor(dow), 
			     expvar = "meantemp_m3", family = "poisson", data = seoul_lag,
			     startrng = 23, endrng = 33, searchunit = 0.2)


# calculate relative risks
rrcalc(mythresh)

Example output

Loading required package: splines
                   RR 95% Lower CI. 95% Upper CI
<Threshold  0.9994901     0.9977038     1.001280
>=Threshold 1.0185862     1.0121592     1.025054

HEAT documentation built on May 29, 2017, 10:52 a.m.