groupAges: Group single ages into equal age groups of arbitrary width

In hhmacedo/dmtls: Convert Age Groups Into Single Ages

Description

This can be useful to check constrained sums, or as an intermediate step for smoothing.

Usage

groupAges(
  Value,
  Age = 1:length(Value) - 1,
  N = 5,
  shiftdown = 0,
  AgeN,
  OAnew = max(Age)
)

Arguments

Value	numeric. Vector of single age counts.
Age	integer. Vector of lower bounds of single age groups.
N	integer. The desired width of resulting age groups. Default 5.
shiftdown	integer. Optionally shift age groupings down by single ages. Default 0.
AgeN	integer vector, otherwise calculated using calcAgeN(). Optional argument.
OAnew	integer. Value of lower bound of new open age group.

Details

If you shift the groupings, then the first age groups may have a negative lower bound (for example of -5). These counts would be discarded for the oscillatory version of Sprague smoothing, for example, but they are preserved in this function. The important thing to know is that if you shift the groups, the first and last groups will not be N years wide. For example if shiftdown is 1, the first age group is 4-ages wide. The ages themselves are not returned but they are the name attribute of the output count vector. Note this will also correctly group abridged ages into equal 5-year age groups if the Age argument is explicitly given.

OAnew (optional) must be less than or equal to max(Age) to have any effect.

Value

Vector of counts in N-year age groups.

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