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In u5mr: Under-Five Child Mortality Estimation

u5mr (development version)

• u5mr_trussell estimates indirect under-five mortality using the Trussell version of the Brass method and the Coale-Demeny life table models.

• data(coale_demeny_ltm) calls a list of tables of coefficients from the Coale-Demeny life table models.

• data(coeff_trussell_ki) and data(coeff_trussell_ti) provide two coefficient tables used to estimate the multipliers k(i) and the reference time t(i) respectively.

• data(bangladesh) and data(panama) are two example datasets for the exercise of child mortality estimation.

u5mr documentation built on Sept. 9, 2021, 5:08 p.m.