case_rate: Function to estimate the case rate for a given variable

In seabbs/DirectEffBCGPolicyChange: Estimating the direct effect of the 2005 UK BCG vaccination policy change.

Description

Estimates the case rate for a given variable, stratified by given variables, dependant on age, year, agegrp2, and uk birth status. Missing data for the rate variable is dropped.

Usage

case_rate(df, rate_for, strat_by = NULL, age_split = NULL,
  CoB_split = TRUE, Year_strat = TRUE)

Arguments

df	A dataframe
rate_for	A character string indicating the variables to estiamte the rate for.
strat_by	A character string indicating the variables to stratify by.
age_split	A character string, defaults to NULL. Specifies the age group to stratify for.
CoB_split	Logical, defaults to TRUE. Should the case rate be grouped by the country of birth.
Year_strat	Logical, defaults to TRUE. Should the case rate be grouped by year.

Value

A dataframe of case rates with upper and lower bounds

See Also

extract_case_counts

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