data.US.prostate.cancer: Japanese breast cancer data

In apc: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

Description

Function that organises US prostate data in apc.data.list format.

The data set is taken from table 2 of Holford (1983), which contains age-specific counts of deaths and midperiod population measured in 1000s, during the period 1935-1969. Reported in 5 year age groups and 5 year period groups.

The original source was Cancer deaths: National Center for Health Statistics, 1937-1973 Population 1935-60: Grove and Hetzel, 1968 Population 1960-69: Bureau of the Census, 1974

The data set is in "AP"-format.

Usage

data.US.prostate.cancer()

Value

The value is a list in apc.data.list format.

response	matrix of cases
dose	matrix of cases/rates
data.format	logical equal to "AP". Data organised with age-groups in rows and period-groups in columns.
age1	numeric equal to 50. This is the label for the first age group covering ages 25-29.
per1	numeric equal to 1935. This is the label for the first period group covering period 1955-1959.
coh1	NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"
unit	numeric equal to 5. This is the width of the age and period groups.
per.zero	NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"
per.max	NULL. Not needed when data.format="AP"
time.adjust	0. Thus age=50 in period=1935 corresponds to cohort=1935-50+0=1885, and indeed the centers of the age and period groups, that is age=52 and period=1937 translate into cohort=1937-52+0=1885.
label	character. "US prostate cancer".

Author(s)

Bent Nielsen <[e-mail]> 8 Sep 2015 (28 Apr 2015)

Source

Table 2 of Holford (1983)

References

Holford, T.R. (1983) The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics 39, 311-324.

See Also

General description of apc.data.list format.

Examples

#########################
##	It is convient to construct a data variable

data	<- data.US.prostate.cancer()

##	To see the content of the data

data

Example output

$response
      1935-1939 1940-1944 1945-1949 1950-1954 1955-1959 1960-1964 1965-1969
50-54       177       271       312       382       321       305       308
55-59       262       350       552       620       714       649       738
60-64       360       479       644       949       932      1292      1327
65-69       409       544       812      1150      1668      1958      2153
70-74       328       509       763      1097      1593      2039      2433
75-79       222       359       584       845      1192      1638      2068
80-84       108       178       285       475       742       992      1374

$dose
      1935-1939 1940-1944 1945-1949 1950-1954 1955-1959 1960-1964 1965-1969
50-54       301       317       353       395       426       473       498
55-59       212       248       279       301       358       411       443
60-64       159       194       222       222       258       304       341
65-69       132       144       169       210       230       264       297
70-74        76        94       110       125       149       180       197
75-79        37        47        59        71        91       108       118
80-84        19        22        32        39        44        56        66

$data.format
[1] "AP"

$age1
[1] 50

$per1
[1] 1935

$coh1
[1] 5

$unit
[1] 5

$per.zero
NULL

$per.max
NULL

$time.adjust
[1] 0

$label
[1] "US prostate cancer"

$n.decimal
NULL

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