Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1 Introduction: Why Do We Visualize Data and What Is This Book About?
- 2 The Lexis Diagram
- 3 Data and Software
- 3.1 Data
- 3.1.1 Human Mortality Database
- 3.1.2 Cause-Specific Death Counts in the United States
- 3.1.3 SEER Cancer Register Data 1973-2011
- 3.2 Software
- 4 Surface Plots of Observed Death Rates
- 4.1 From Death Counts to Death Rates
- 4.2 Results
- 5 Surface Plots of Smoothed Mortality Data
- 5.1 From Raw Death Rates to Smoothed Death Rates
- 5.2 Results
- 6 Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement
- 6.1 From Smoothed Death Rates to Rates of Mortality Improvement
- 6.2 Results
- 7 Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement for Selected Causes of Death in the United States
- 8 Surface Plots of Age-Specific Contributions to the Increase in Life Expectancy
- 8.1 How to Estimate Age-Specific Contributions to the Change in Life Expectancy
- 8.2 Results
- 9 Seasonality of Causes of Death
- 9.1 Decomposing Seasonal Data
- 9.2 Results
- 10 Surface Plots for Cancer Survival
- 10.1 Introduction and Overview: The Impact of Cancer on Mortality in the United States
- 10.2 Dynamics of Cancer Survival by Cancer Site
- 11 Summary and Outlook
- Additional Figures
- Software: R package ROMIplot
- A.1 Background, Installation and Requirements
- A.2 Functions
- A.2.1 readHMDformat()
- A.2.2 create.Lexis.matrix()
- A.2.3 ROMI.plot()
- References.