An R package for fitting age, period and cohort models

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 summariz...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adriano Decarli, Carlo La Vecchia, Matteo Malvezzi, Rocco Micciolo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2014-11-01
Series:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
Online Access:http://ebph.it/article/view/9977
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2282-0930