R/death_rates.R

In csiro-crc-spin/RCSpin: Group of Spin-alike models

#' Death rates
#' 
#' A dataset containing Australain male and female death rates for 2008-2010, available from the
#' Australian Bureau of Statistics. See
#' \url{http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12008-2010}
#' These death rate define a "period" life table, as though the whole population, of whatever age, was subject
#' to the current mortality rates. The alternative is a "cohort" life table that follows a cohort from
#' birth to age "x"  with the rates of martality experienced by that cohort.
#' 
#' \itemize{
#'   \item death_rate_female
#'   \item death_rate_male
#' }
#' 
#' @docType data
#' @keywords datasets
#' @format two vectors of length 100
#' @name death_rates
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