The pyears() and survexp() routines in the survival package are designed for these calculations. See the technical report #63 of the Mayo Biostat group for examples
http://www.mayo.edu/research/departments-divisions/department-health-sciences-research/division-biomedical-statistics-infomatics/technical-reports <http://www.mayo.edu/research/departments-divisions/department-health-sciences-research/division-biomedical-statistics-informatics/technical-reports> Terry Therneau ---------- begin included message ----------- I am looking for R example codes to compute age-standardized death rates by smoking and psychological distress status using person-years of observation created from the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files. Any help with the example codes or references will be appreciated. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
