getStdRate: Calculate the standardized rate
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getStdRate

R Documentation

Calculate the standardized rate

Description

A function to calculate the standard rate according to the Canadian standard population data set from year 1991.

Usage

getStdRate(relativeRate, model, referencePopulation, scale = 1e+05)

Arguments

`relativeRate`	the relative cancer rate calculated by glmmBUGS of different sex and age group of people from ontario .
`model`	Model to standardize to, either `glm` model output or a vector of rates by age and sex group
`referencePopulation`	population to standardize to
`scale`	compute the expected rate per ‘scale’ number of people.

Value

numeric value, incidence rate in reference population.

Author(s)

Lutong Zhou

Examples

data(kentucky)
kentucky = terra::unwrap(kentucky)

kentucky2 = getSMR(kentucky, larynxRates, larynx, 
		regionCode="County")

data(referencepop)
newpop <- getStdRate(kentucky2$SMR, larynxRates, referencepop, scale=100000)

newpop[1:10]

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