[R] Survival: pyears and ratetable: expected events

[Jim Trabas]

Hi thanks, 

The conventional method is solid (cross multiplication of patient years at
each age and year and gender, with the corresponding risk for death at each
age year and gender). I get about 26 expected deaths (verified by many
different sources)

Now what I am trying to do is get the same answer with the pyears function
using a ratetable, and I am not being successful at all. Could one help be
with the syntax, lets assume for now I want to use the survexp.us ratetable.
Or help me with how my variables should be formated, (days? years? scale?
asDate? Julian date? days difference from an origin? ) and entered in the
pyears method? Or give me similar working example that I can decompose and
fit to my problem?

David sorry, I ment survexp.us (the standard in the survival package)

Thanks to all, JT

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