Age and cause decomposition of differences in life expectancies

Age and cause decomposition of differences in life expectancies

Usage

mdecomp(mx1, mx2, age, method = "andreev", ...)

Arguments

mx1

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

mx2

List of numeric arrays. 1st array should be all-cause nmx in the 2nd population, other arrays are cause-specific nmx in the 2nd population

age

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

method

Character. Decomposition method. "andreev" (1982) or "arriaga" (1984) - slightly different in their results. By default, method = "andreev".

...

Optional. Additional arguments for decomp function.

Value

Dataframe with 1st column as overall decomposition (ex12), and other columns are decompositions by causes (cause(i))