Software for R
R-packages from the Biostatistics Unit
We regularly create additional packages for the statistical computing system R. These can be downloaded from the R-project website:
R-functions used in publications
Riebler, A., Held, L., Rue, H. and Bopp, M. (2011). "Gender-specific differences and the impact of family integration on time trends in age-stratified Swiss suicide rates ". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A. In press.
Supplementary material containing the data that are analysed in the paper and the R-code used to analyse them, can be found here:
Held, L. and Riebler, A. (2010). "A conditional approach for inference in multivariate age-period-cohort models". Statistical Methods in Medical Research. DOI: 10.1177/0962280210379761
R-code for the conditional estimation of multivariate age-period-cohort models. Furthermore, the archive includes additional functions to adjust for overdispersion, an example data set and Readme files.