An R package for fitting age, period and cohort models

Adriano Decarli; Carlo La Vecchia; Matteo Malvezzi; Rocco Micciolo

doi:10.2427/9977

An R package for fitting age, period and cohort models

Adriano Decarli, Carlo La Vecchia, Matteo Malvezzi, Rocco Micciolo

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Abstract

In this paper we present the R implementation of a GLIM macro which fits age-period-cohort model following Osmond and Gardner. In addition to the estimates of the corresponding model, owing to the programming capability of R as an object oriented language, methods for printing, plotting and summarizing the results are provided. Furthermore, the researcher has fully access to the output of the main function (apc) which returns all the models fitted within the function. It is so possible to critically evaluate the goodness of fit of the resulting model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2427/9977
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Age-period-cohort models
Cohort analysis
R language
Trends

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Epidemiology
Health Policy
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Community and Home Care

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