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

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Rostock, March 23-27 2009.

Lectures: Bendix Carstensen
Practicals: Bendix Carstensen & Eva Gelnarova

• Program for the course.
• Slides used during the lectures. Handouts (8 to the page)
• Practicals for the course in pdf-format.
• Assignmets for homework; randomly distributed among students.
• Datasets used for practicals and assignments.
• R-programs both for solutions to practicals and examples used in the lectures
• A few bugs have recently been fixed in the APC-functions in Epi. The fixes are in versiom 1.0.11 (not on CRAN), which you should download and install Epi 1.0.11 for windows or for Unix
• List of participants.
• Here are some statistical papers discussing APC model. It will be useful to have browsed these before the course:
  • 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.