bage

Fast Bayesian estimation and forecasting of age-specific rates.

Features:

• Incorporates substantive demographic knowledge via priors
• Supports full Bayesian workflow
• Allows for measurement errors and missing values

Installation

install.packages("bage")

Development

A road map for the package is here.

Example

Fit Poisson model to data on injuries

library(bage)
mod <- mod_pois(injuries ~ age:sex + ethnicity + year,
                data = nzl_injuries,
                exposure = popn) |>
  fit()
mod
#> 
#>     ------ Fitted Poisson model ------
#> 
#>    injuries ~ age:sex + ethnicity + year
#> 
#>                  exposure: popn
#> 
#>         term  prior along n_par n_par_free std_dev
#>  (Intercept) NFix()     -     1          1       -
#>    ethnicity NFix()     -     2          2    0.45
#>         year   RW()  year    19         19    0.09
#>      age:sex   RW()   age    24         24    0.88
#> 
#>  disp: mean = 1
#> 
#>  n_draw var_time var_age var_sexgender optimizer
#>    1000     year     age           sex    nlminb
#> 
#>  time_total time_max time_draw iter converged                    message
#>        1.58     0.84      0.62   13      TRUE   relative convergence (4)

Extract model-based and direct estimates

augment(mod)
#> # A tibble: 912 × 9
#>    age   sex    ethnicity  year injuries  popn .observed                    .fitted
#>    <fct> <chr>  <chr>     <int>    <int> <int>     <dbl>               <rdbl<1000>>
#>  1 0-4   Female Maori      2000       12 35830 0.000335    0.00026 (2e-04, 0.00034)
#>  2 5-9   Female Maori      2000        6 35120 0.000171    7.4e-05 (5.2e-05, 1e-04)
#>  3 10-14 Female Maori      2000        3 32830 0.0000914 9.1e-05 (6.4e-05, 0.00012)
#>  4 15-19 Female Maori      2000        6 27130 0.000221  0.00039 (0.00029, 0.00052)
#>  5 20-24 Female Maori      2000        6 24380 0.000246  0.00039 (0.00029, 0.00049)
#>  6 25-29 Female Maori      2000        6 24160 0.000248  0.00033 (0.00025, 0.00045)
#>  7 30-34 Female Maori      2000       12 22560 0.000532  0.00035 (0.00027, 0.00046)
#>  8 35-39 Female Maori      2000        3 22230 0.000135  0.00031 (0.00023, 0.00042)
#>  9 40-44 Female Maori      2000        6 18130 0.000331  0.00034 (0.00026, 0.00045)
#> 10 45-49 Female Maori      2000        6 13770 0.000436  0.00036 (0.00027, 0.00048)
#> # ℹ 902 more rows
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: .expected <rdbl<1000>>