LTabr                   an abridged lifetable based on M(x)
Mxc1                    Year 2002 death rates by cause for US males in
                        abridged age classes
Mxc2                    Year 2002 death rates by cause for England and
                        Wales males in abridged age classes
Mxc2e0abr               get life expectancy at birth from an
                        (abridged)age-cause matrix
Mxc2e0abrvec            get life expectancy at birth from the vec of an
                        age-cause matrix
R0vec                   R0vec Calculates net reproduction, R0,
                        according to a given set of rates Lx,fx and a
                        fixed proportion female of births, 'pfem'.
horiuchi                Numeric Approximation of Continuous
                        Decomposition
ltre                    Caswell's LTRE method of decomposition
rates1                  Fake data generated for horiuchi example.
rates2                  Fake data generated for horiuchi example.
stepwise_replacement    implementation of the decomposition algorithm
                        of stepwise replacement
