keyfitz: keyfitz

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References See Also Examples

Description

Utility used by life.table to graduate the person-years lived by those dying in the interval by the method of Keyfitz and Flieger (1990).

Usage

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keyfitz(b0, nMx)

Arguments

b0

two element vector of regression coefficients provided in Keyfitz and Flieger (1990). Default value: b0=c(0.07,1.7).

nMx

period central death rates: =nDx/nKx.

Details

Utility function called by life.table.

Value

The first two values (age classes 0-1 and 1-5) of the nax column of a period life table.

References

Keyfitz, N., and W. Flieger. 1990. World population growth and aging: Demographic trends in the late twentieth century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

See Also

life.table

Examples

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data(goodman)
## default type="kf"
vlt <- with(goodman, life.table(x=age, nKx=ven.nKx, nDx=ven.nDx))

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