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Estimate age-specific probabilities of death by smoking status

Source: R/smoke_surv.R
smoke_surv.Rd

Calculates survival probabilities (px) stratified by Smoking Status. It uses the relative risks (RR) of smoking-related diseases to adjust background mortality rates.

Usage

smoke_surv(
  data,
  diseases = tobalcepi::tob_disease_names,
  mx_data,
  min_age = 11,
  max_age = 89,
  min_year = 2003,
  max_year = 2018
)

Arguments

data

Data table of individual characteristics (survey data).

diseases

Character vector of disease names.

mx_data

Data table of cause-specific mortality rates.

min_age, max_age, min_year, max_year

Integers.