R: Death Registration Coverage Estimation

# Death Registration Coverage Estimation

## Documentation for package ‘DDM’ version 1.0-0

- DESCRIPTION file.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

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addcod | append a '$cod' column if missing
adjustages | adjust the range of ages used by 'ggbChooseAges()'
assignNoteCode | a cheap way to choose which column to assign a 'NoteCode' to
avgDeaths | if necessary divide deaths by intercensal interval
BrasilFemales | Example data for Brasil females by federal states, years 1991 to 2000
BrasilMales | Example data for Brasil males by federal states, years 1980 to 1991
cdmltw | Coale-Demeny model life table: West
ddm | run all three deaths registration coverage estimation methods
ddmplot | get a quick overview of the different estimates produced
detectAgeInterval | Detect the age interval for some demographic data
detectSex | Detect the sex for some demographic data
eOpenCD | estimate remaining life expectancy in the open age group
fakeDates | assume Jan 1 if no month or day given
ggb | estimate death registration coverage using the GGB method
ggbChooseAges | interactively determine ages to use for estimating coverage
ggbcoverageFromAges | given a set of ages, what is the implied death registration coverage?
ggbcoverageFromYear | estimate death registration coverage for a single year/sex/region using the GGB method
ggbFittedFromAges | make the growth-adjusted quasi life table columns required by GGB method
ggbgetAgesFit | determine the age range that minimizes the mean squared error
ggbgetRMS | calculate the root means square of the error to help find optimal age range
ggbMakeColumns | make the growth-adjusted quasi life table columns required by GGB method
ggbseg | estimate death registration coverage using the hybrid generalized growth balance and synthetic extinct generation
ggbsegCoverageFromYear | estimate death registration coverage for a single year/sex/region using the modified Bennett-Horiuchi method
ggbsegMakeColumns | make the Bennett-Horiuchi quasi life table columns required by the second estimation method
group01 | group down standard abridged data in child mortality group
guessage | which age is closest to the point clicked?
guessDeathsColumn | Figure out which column is the deaths column
headerPrep | a utility function to prep the header
HMDlogic | Logical utility functions
HMDutils | Logical utility functions
inUSR | does a given pairlist of x and y coordinates fall within the plot region?
isLeapYear | determine whether a year is a leap year.
logic | Logical utility functions
Moz | Example data for Mozambique females 1997-2007
reduceOpen | chop down or group down the open age
seg | estimate death registration coverage using the synthetic extinct generation method
segCoverageFromAges | given a set of ages, what is the implied death registration coverage?
segCoverageFromYear | estimate death registration coverage for a single year/sex/region using the Bennett-Horiuchi method
segMakeColumns | make the Bennett-Horiuchi quasi life table columns required by the estimation method
segplot | plot the age-pattern of coverage estimates
single2abr | single ages to standard abridged ages
slopeint | get the slope the slope and intercept implied by a set of ages
yint | get interval as fraction of full years
yint2 | get the time interval without having to specify so many arguments
ypart | determine the proportion of a year passed as of a particular date