md.death: md.death

In missDeaths: Simulating and Analyzing Time to Event Data in the Presence of Population Mortality

Description

Creates information of a time of death variable distributed according to the specified population mortality table and demographic information. This function call must be added to the md.simparams object.

Usage

md.death(name, poptable, sexcol, birthcol, startcol)

Arguments

name	name of the column
poptable	population mortality table used to simulate times od death
sexcol	name of the column (covariate) specifying birth date
birthcol	name of the column (covariate) specifying birth date
startcol	name of the column (covariate) specifying the start date from which to calculate time of death

Examples

## Not run: 
library(missDeaths)

sim = md.simparams() +
   md.sex("sex", 0.5) + 
     md.uniform("birth", as.Date("1930-1-1"), as.Date("1970-1-1")) +
       md.uniform("start", as.Date("2005-1-1"), as.Date("2010-1-1")) +
         md.death("death", survexp.us, "sex", "birth", "start") 

## End(Not run)

missDeaths documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 6:39 p.m.