Overview {lancet.iraqmortality}R Documentation

Overview of lancet.iraqmortality package

Description

The Lancet has published two surveys (Roberts et al (2004) and Burnham et al (2006)) on Iraq mortality before and after the US-led invasion. This package serves three purposes. First, it includes a portion of the summary data related to the first study, both the raw .xls file distributed by the authors (/doc/lancet1.xls) and a cleaned up R dataframe (type data(lancet1)). Second, it provides simple functions for working with data from the second study. The authors have distributed this data only to selected researchers. Those researchers can use this package to work with that data more easily. Third, for researchers without such access, we provide a vignette — type vignette(mortality) — which serves as a guided tour of some of the more interesting aspects of the data. The code for the vignette is provided in /doc\_rnw/mortality.Rnw. This location is non-standard but necessary since it prevents the automatic checking of the vignette, which would fail since the necessary data is not distributed with the package.

Author(s)

David Kane, Arjun Ravi Narayan

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_mortality_before_and_after_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq

"Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey" by Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, and Gilbert Burnham. The Lancet, October 29, 2004.

"Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey" by Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, and Les Roberts. The Lancet, October 11, 2006.

http://crookedtimber.org/2004/11/11/lancet-roundup-and-literature-review

http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/lancetiraq/


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