who_mortality: Use WHO Mortality Rate

In heemod: Markov Models for Health Economic Evaluations

Use WHO Mortality Rate

Description

Returns age and sex-specific mortality probabilities for a given country.

Usage

get_who_mr_memo(
  age,
  sex = NULL,
  region = NULL,
  country = NULL,
  year = "latest",
  local = FALSE
)

get_who_mr(
  age,
  sex = NULL,
  region = NULL,
  country = NULL,
  year = "latest",
  local = FALSE
)

Arguments

age	age as a continuous variable.
sex	sex as "FMLE"-"MLE", 0-1 (male = 0, female = 1) or 1-2 (male = 1, female = 2).
region	Region code. Assumed NULL if provided along with country.
country	Country code (see details).
year	Use data from that year. Defaults to "latest".
local	Fetch mortality data from package cached data?

Details

Locally cached data is used in case of connection problems, of if local = TRUE. For memory space reasons local data is only available for WHO high-income countries (pooled), and only for the latest year.

The results of get_who_mr are memoised for options("heemod.memotime") (default: 1 hour) to increase resampling performance.

Value

This function should be used within define_transition() or define_parameters().

Examples

define_transition(
  C, get_who_mr(age = 50 + model_time, sex = "FMLE", country = "FRA"),
  0, 1
)

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