Das Gupta Standardisation and Decomposition
Das Gupta equation 5.36 across N populations: Decomposes cross-classif...
Prithwis Das Gupta's 1993 standardisation and decomposition of rates o...
Das Gupta equation 5.36 for a single population: Decomposes cross-clas...
Das Gupta equation 6.12 for a differences between 2 populations when s...
Wrapper for cross-classified data that standardises rates across a pai...
Creates a plot of Das Gupta standardised rates across the set of popul...
Creates a small table of Das Gupta standardised rates. If no populatio...
Standardisation and decomposition of rates over K rate-factors and 2 p...
Das Gupta equation 3.54. internal function called by dg2pop.
Das Gupta equation 6.11: Standardises rates across populations
Implementation of Das Gupta's standardisation and decomposition of population rates, as set out "Standardization and decomposition of rates: A user’s manual", Das Gupta (1993) <https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1993/demographics/p23-186.pdf>. The goal of these methods is to calculate adjusted rates based on compositional 'factors' and quantify the contribution of each factor to the difference in crude rates between populations. The package offers functionality to handle various scenarios for any number of factors and populations, where said factors can be comprised of vectors across sub-populations (including cross-classified population breakdowns), and with the option to specify user-defined rate functions.
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