README.md

lifequal: Calculating Life-table Lifespan Equality

lifequal is an R package providing three functions to calculate measures of lifespan equality from a life-table:

  1. ExDagger(x, ex, ax) Life expectancy lost by those who die in age interval $[x, x+w_x)$
  2. EDagger(dx, exdagger, radix) Total life expectancy lost due to death
  3. KeyfzEntro(edagger, e0) Keyfitz's entropy

How to install

You can install lifequal by running within R:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jschoeley/lifequal")

Author: Jonas Schöley jschoeley@health.sdu.dk

License: GPL-2



jschoeley/lifequal documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:07 a.m.