year: Predict years of birth from first names

In pmerckle/firstnamer: Set of Functions Using First Name Databases

Description

This function predicts the years of birth of individuals from a vector of first names.

Usage

year(firstname, year_min = 1946, year_max = 2017)

Arguments

year_min	starting year of the period over which the prediction is computed.
year_max	ending year of the period over which the prediction is computed.

Value

The predicted years of birth based on the proportions of individuals with the input first names born each year. The function returns the modes of the distributions, i.e. the years with the highest numbers of individuals born by the input firstnames. NAs are returned when the input first names are unknown in the database.

Examples

year(c("Baptiste", "Henriette")

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