joinrate {relsurv}R Documentation

Join ratetables

Description

The function joins two or more objects organized as ratetable by adding a new dimension.

Usage

joinrate(tables,dim.name="country")

Arguments

tables a list of ratetables. If names are given, they are included as dimnames.
dim.name the name of the added dimension.

Details

This function joins two or more ratetable objects by adding a new dimension. The cutpoints of all the rate tables are compared and only the common intervals kept. If the intervals defined by the cutpoints are not of the same length, a warning message is displayed. Each rate table must have 3 dimensions, i.e. age, sex and year (the order is not important).

Value

An object of class ratetable.

References

package
Pohar M., Stare J. "Relative survival analysis in R." Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 81: 272-278, 2006.
relative survival
Pohar, M., Stare, J. "Making relative survival analysis relatively easy." Computers in biology and medicine, 37: 1741-1749, 2007.

See Also

ratetable, transrate.hld, transrate.hmd, transrate.

Examples

data(ratetables)
newpop <- joinrate(list(Arizona=survexp.az,Florida=survexp.fl,
          Minnesota=survexp.mn),dim.name="state")

[Package relsurv version 1.5 Index]