A package for statistical analysis in epidemiology.


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Documentation for package `Epi' version 0.4

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apc.frame Produce an empty frame for display of parameter-estimates from Age-Period-Cohort-models.
apc.lines Plot APC-estimates in an APC-frame.
Aplot Functions to plot rates from a table classified by age and calendar time (period)
bdendo A case-control study of endometrial cancer
bdendo11 A 1:1 subset of the endometrial cancer case-control study
births Births in a London Hospital
blcaIT Bladder cancer mortality in Italian males
brv Bereavement in an elderly cohort
cal.yr Function to convert character, factor and various date objects into a number.
ccwc Generate a nested case-control study
ci.lin Compute linear functions of parameters with s.e.
ci.pd Compute confidence limits for a difference of two independent proportions.
count Special functions for use in stat.table
Cplot Functions to plot rates from a table classified by age and calendar time (period)
diet Diet and heart data
ewrates Rates of lung and nasal cancer mortality, and total mortality.
float Calculate floated variances
ftrend Fit a floating trend to a factor in generalized linear model
gmortDK Population mortality rates for Denmark in 5-years age groups.
lep An unmatched case-control study of leprosy incidence
Lexis Split follow-up time in cohort studies.
Lexis.diagram Plot a Lexis diagram
Lexis.lines Draw life lines in a Lexis diagram.
Life.lines Compute dates/ages for life lines in a Lexis diagram
linesEst Plot estimates with confidence limits
lungDK Male lung cancer incidence in Denmark
mh Mantel-Haenszel analyses of cohort and case-control studies
mortDK Population mortality rates for Denmark in 1-year age-classes.
ncut Function to group a variable in intervals.
nice Nice breakpoints
nickel A Cohort of Nickel Smelters in South Wales
pctab Create percentages in a table
percent Special functions for use in stat.table
plotEst Plot estimates with confidence limits
pointsEst Plot estimates with confidence limits
Pplot Functions to plot rates from a table classified by age and calendar time (period)
print.floated Calculate floated variances
print.stat.table Tables of summary statistics
rateplot Functions to plot rates from a table classified by age and calendar time (period)
ratio Special functions for use in stat.table
Relevel Reorder and combine levels of a factor
ROC Function to compute and draw ROC-curves.
S.typh Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak 1996 in Denmark.
stat.table Tables of summary statistics
tabplot Graphical display of a 2-way contingency table
thoro Thorotrast Study
twoby2 Analysis of a two by two table