summary-prediction function

Summary of a Prediction of the Life Expectancy

Country-specific summary of an object of class bayesLife.prediction, created using the function e0.predict. The summary contains the mean, standard deviation and several commonly used quantiles of the simulated trajectories. 1.1

## S3 method for class 'bayesLife.prediction'
summary(object, country = NULL, compact = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

• object: Object of class bayesLife.prediction.
• country: Country name or code.
• compact: Logical switching between a smaller and larger number of displayed quantiles.
• ...: Not used.

Author(s)

Hana Sevcikova

See Also

bayesLife.prediction

Examples

sim.dir <- file.path(find.package("bayesLife"), "ex-data", "bayesLife.output")
pred <- get.e0.prediction(sim.dir=sim.dir)                                                    
summary(pred, country="Iceland")

# names and codes of countries included
tail(get.countries.table(pred, iso = TRUE), 20)

# using an ISO code
summary(pred, country="CHE")