Statistical Analysis in the Lexis Diagram:
Age-Period-Cohort models

Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, 3-5 May 2010.

Lectures: Bendix Carstensen
Practicals: Bendix Carstensen & participants

• Program for the workshop.
• Slides used during the lectures. Handouts (8 to the page)
• Practicals for the workshop in pdf-format.
  Note: This file has 157 pages so you may not want to print it all.
  It would be a good idea to work through the practicals on age-period, age-cohort, age-drift and age-period-cohort models from the practicals.
  It would also be good to work through the simple example on parametrization in the file blcaIT.r
• Note that you should use the latest version of the Epi package, 1.1.14, which is not on CRAN yet, but available at the Epi archives.
  Just download the file Epi_1.1.14.zip and in R click on "Packages" -> "Install package(s) from local zip-files..."
• Linear algebra notes which will be useful used for practicals and assignments.
• Datasets used for practicals and assignments.
• R-programs both for solutions to practicals and examples used in the lectures
• Stata-programs for (some) solutions to practicals, courtesy of Mark Rutherford.
• Here are some statistical papers discussing APC model. It will be useful to have browsed these before the workshop:
  • T.R. Holford: The estimation of age, period and cohort effects for vital rates. Biometrics, 39:311-324, 1983.
  • D. Clayton & E. Schifflers: Models for temporal variation in cancer rates. I: Age-period and age-cohort models; II: Age-period-cohort models. Statistics in Medicine, 6:449-481, 1987.
  • B. Carstensen: Age-Period-Cohort models for the Lexis diagram. Statistics in Medicine, 26: 3018-3045, 2007.