Conducting Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Truncated Mortality Data
Overview
Estimates hazard ratios and mortality differentials for doubly-truncated data without population denominators. This method is described in Goldstein et al. (2023) doi:10.1007/s11113-023-09785-z.
Improved calculation of standard errors and other minor bug fixes in gompertz_mle()
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Installing gompertztrunc adds 51 packages (30 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2022-08-17
- Total releases
- 3 / 4 yrs
- License
- GPL (>= 3) OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.5.0
- Bundled data
- 3.6 MB / 3 files
- Download size
- 3.7 MB
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