smr.ca: Standard mortality ratio (SMR) for Canadian population

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Standard mortality ratio (SMR) for Canadian population

Description

Modify the file from SMR in survexp.fr package to calculation standard mortality ratio for Canadian population.

Usage

smr.ca(time, event, age, sex, ratetable = survexp.ca, alpha = 0.05)

Arguments

time	Survival time
event	Event status, 1 for death and 0 for alive
age	Age of the subject
sex	Gender of the subject, 1 for male and 2 for female
ratetable	Expected mortality rate table for Canadian population, default is survexp.ca
alpha	Nominal level of confidence interval. Default is 0.05

Details

See help file of SMR from 'survexp.fr' for details.

Value

Object of class 'power.htest', a list of the arguments (including the computed one).

death	Number of death
expected	Expected number of death in general population
SMR.classic	SMR based on classic method, as in SMR from survexp.fr
SMR.poisson	SMR based on Poisson method, as in SMR from survexp.fr
can.haz	Expected canadian hazard rate of death (matched with age and gender)

Author(s)

Bingshu E. Chen ([e-mail])

References

N. Breslow and N. Day, Statistical methods in cancer research, Volume II - The design and analysis of cohort studies, World Health Organization, 1987.

See Also

SMR, survexp.us, survexp.fr.

Examples

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# smr = smr.ca(time, event, age, sex)

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