smooth_mortality_law: Function to smooth mortality rates using MortalityLaw package

In vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

Function to smooth mortality rates using MortalityLaw package

Description

This smoothing function allows smoothing of a variable in a vital object using the MortalityLaw package. The vital object is returned along with some additional columns containing information about the smoothed variable: .smooth containing the smoothed values, and .smooth_se containing the corresponding standard errors.

Usage

smooth_mortality_law(.data, .var, law = "gompertz", ...)

Arguments

.data	A vital object
.var	name of variable to smooth. This should contain mortality rates.
law	name of mortality law. For available mortality laws, users can check the availableLaws. Argument ignored if a custom law supplied. function to learn about the available options.
...	Additional arguments are passed to MortalityLaw.

Value

vital with added columns containing smoothed values and their standard errors

Author(s)

Sixian Tang and Rob J Hyndman

Examples

norway_mortality |> smooth_mortality_law(Mortality)

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