calc_asrate_var: Calculate age-specific rates and variance

In mkiang/narcan: Helper functions for working with multiple cause of death data

Calculate age-specific rates and variance

Description

Given a bare (unquoted) column of counts and population, will return the rate in 100,000 as well as the variance (using Poisson approximation).

Usage

calc_asrate_var(df, new_name, death_col, pop_col = pop)

Arguments

df	processed MCOD dataframe
new_name	bare prefix of the new column names (e.g., opioid)
death_col	column of counts for numerator of rate
pop_col	column of population for denominator of rate

Value

dataframe with two new columns

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