Cohort specific smoking initiation

Reconstructs longitudinal smoking histories from cross-sectional recall data.

Usage

init_est(data, strat_vars = c("sex", "imd_quintile"))

Arguments

data

Data table of individual characteristics. Must contain 'start_age'.

strat_vars

Character vector of stratification variables.

Value

A summarized data.table of initiation probabilities by age/year/cohort.