HOME: Harmonized Orphanhood Mortality Estimation
Implements indirect demographic methods for estimating adult
mortality from orphanhood data. The package includes the standard
Brass and Hill (1973) method
<https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?&title=Estimating%20Adult%20Mortality%20from%20Orphanhood&pages=111-23&publication_year=1973&author=Brass%2CW.&author=Hill.%2CK.>,
the regression-based approach developed by Timaeus (1992)
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12317481/>, and the adjustments
proposed by Luy (2012) <doi:10.1007/s13524-012-0101-4> for
low-mortality populations. A relational model is used to harmonize
estimates into comparable adult mortality indicators. The package
also provides diagnostic tools to assess the sensitivity of results
to assumptions about the mean age of childbearing and the choice of
model life table family.
| Version: |
0.1.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 3.5.0) |
| Imports: |
ggplot2, gridExtra |
| Suggests: |
shiny, bslib, plotly, DT, readxl, writexl, scales, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: |
2026-06-17 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.HOME |
| Author: |
Tamara Vaz [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Tamara Vaz <tamaravaz.m at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/tamaravaz/HOME/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/tamaravaz/HOME |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
README |
| CRAN checks: |
HOME results |
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