deadInTheUSA: The causes of death as a function of age in the USA in 2001.

deadInTheUSAR Documentation

The causes of death as a function of age in the USA in 2001.

Description

deadInTheUSA: provides a 19 causes of death by 11 age-bins contingency table storing the number of persons who died for each cause for each age in the USA in 2001. This type of data is typically analyzed with correspondence analysis.

Usage

data("deadInTheUSA")

Format

A list containing 1 data frame:

  • CT: the contingency table giving the number of death per age and cause.

Details

The data have been cleaned and compacted from the original data to make the data table more readable. The cause AD_PD is the concatenation of Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases.

Author(s)

Hervé Abdi

References

Original data from National Vital Stat Reports, 52(3), Sept 18.


HerveAbdi/data4PCCAR documentation built on Sept. 11, 2022, 4:19 p.m.