Daily Hazard Rate by Age

Calculates the daily probability of death based on age using a simplified Gompertz-Makeham mortality model.

Usage

daily_hazard_rate(age, sex = "male")

Arguments

age

Age in years

sex

"male" or "female" (default: "male")

Value

A tibble with:

age

Input age

sex

Input sex

daily_prob

Daily probability of death

micromorts

Daily baseline risk in micromorts

microlives_consumed

Estimated microlives consumed per day

interpretation

Human-readable summary

References

Gompertz B (1825). "On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

See also

annual_risk_budget(), compare_interventions()

Other analysis: annual_risk_budget(), compare_interventions(), lifestyle_tradeoff()

Examples

# Baseline risk at age 30
daily_hazard_rate(30)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 6
#>     age sex   daily_prob micromorts microlives_consumed interpretation          
#>   <dbl> <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>               <dbl> <chr>                   
#> 1    30 male  0.00000203          2                0.04 At age 30 (male): 2.0 m…

# Compare male vs female at age 65
daily_hazard_rate(65, "male")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 6
#>     age sex   daily_prob micromorts microlives_consumed interpretation          
#>   <dbl> <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>               <dbl> <chr>                   
#> 1    65 male   0.0000346       34.6                0.25 At age 65 (male): 34.6 …
daily_hazard_rate(65, "female")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 6
#>     age sex    daily_prob micromorts microlives_consumed interpretation         
#>   <dbl> <chr>       <dbl>      <dbl>               <dbl> <chr>                  
#> 1    65 female  0.0000151       15.1                0.11 At age 65 (female): 15…