plot.mortalityTable: Plot multiple mortality tables (life tables) in one plot
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plot.mortalityTable

R Documentation

Plot multiple mortality tables (life tables) in one plot

Description

plot.mortalityTable displays multiple life tables (objects of child classes of mortalityTable) in one plot, with a legend showing the names of the tables. If the argument reference not given, all mortality rates are plotted on a log-linear scale for comparison. If the argument reference is given and is a valid life table, then all death probabilities are scaled by the given reference table and the y-axis shows the death rates as percentage of the reference table.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'mortalityTable'
plot(x, ..., reference = NULL, trend = FALSE)

Arguments

`x`	First life table to be plotted. Must be a `mortalityTable` object for the dispatcher to call this function
`...`	Additional life tables to be plotted (`mortalityTable` objects) as well as any of the following parameters (which are passed on to `plotMortalityTables` or `plotMortalityTableComparisons`): `xlim,ylim` Axes limitatation (as a two-element vectors) `xlab,ylab` Axes labels (default for x-axis: "Alter", default for y-axis: "Sterbewahrscheinlichkeit q_x") `title` The plot title `legend.position` The position of the legend (default is `c(0.9,0.1)`) `legend.key.width` The keywith of the lines in the legend (default is `unit(25,"mm")`)
`reference`	The reference table that determines the 100% values. If not given, the absolute mortality values are compared and plotted on a log-linear scale.
`trend`	If set to `TRUE`, the function `plotMortalityTrend` is used to plot the trends of the given tables.

Examples

# Load the Austrian census data
mortalityTables.load("Austria_Census")

# Plot some select census tables in a log-linear plot
plot(mort.AT.census.1869.male, mort.AT.census.1869.female,
     mort.AT.census.1971.male, mort.AT.census.1971.female,
     mort.AT.census.2011.male, mort.AT.census.2011.female,
     title="Austrian census tables",
     ylab=expression(q[x]), xlab="Age",
     xlim=c(0,90),
     legend.position=c(0.95,0.05))

# Compare some census tables with the mortality of 2011 Austrian males
plot(mort.AT.census.1869.male, mort.AT.census.1869.female,
     mort.AT.census.1971.male, mort.AT.census.1971.female,
     mort.AT.census.2011.male, mort.AT.census.2011.female,
     title="Austrian Census tables, relative to 2011 males",
     reference=mort.AT.census.2011.male)

MortalityTables documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 5:52 p.m.