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Multiple Decrement Life Table

Source: R/MLT.R
MLT.Rd

Multiple Decrement Life Table

Usage

MLT(age, mx, ...)

Arguments

age

Numeric array of age intervals; for full life table = 0:100; for concise life table = c(0:1, seq(5,85,5))

mx

List of numeric arrays. 1st array should be all-cause mx in the population, other arrays are cause-specific mx in the population.

...

Other parameters for the function LT() including ax (by default, the middle of the interval), sex (by default = "m" - males), l0 (by default = 1).

Value

A numeric matrix extending the output of LT(). In addition to the standard life-table columns, for each cause i in mx[-1] it adds qx_i, dx_i, lx_i, and ex_no_i, corresponding to cause-specific death probabilities, deaths, survivors, and cause-deleted life expectancy.

See also

LT() for usual life table calculation

Examples

data(asdtex)
mx_causes <- list(
  all = asdtex$all,
  neoplasms = asdtex$neoplasms,
  circulatory = asdtex$circulatory
)
MLT(age = asdtex$age, mx = mx_causes)[1:3, c("age", "mx", "qx_neoplasms", "ex_no_neoplasms")]
#>      age      mx qx_neoplasms ex_no_neoplasms
#> [1,]   0 0.00762      0.00003           84.29
#> [2,]   1 0.00035      0.00012           83.93
#> [3,]   5 0.00017      0.00015           80.03