demography: sex.ratio – R documentation

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sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates

Description

Calculates the Male/Female ratios from historical or forecasted mortality rates.

Usage

sex.ratio(data)

Arguments

data

Demogdata object of type “mortality” such as obtained from read.demogdata, or an object of class fmforecast such as the output from forecast.fdm or forecast.lca.

Value

Functional time series of sex ratios.

Author(s)

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

plot(sex.ratio(fr.mort),ylab="Sex ratios (M/F)")

demography

Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data

v1.22

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Rob J Hyndman with contributions from Heather Booth, Leonie Tickle and John Maindonald.

Initial release