Patient age

Distribution of patient ages.

age_dist

Format

A data.table with columns:

age_cat

Age category.

age_lower

Lower bound of age category.

age_upper

Upper bound of age category.

age_mid

Midpoint of age category.

prop

Proportion of patients in age category.

Also contains the attributes:

mean

Mean age.

sd

Standard deviation of age.

Source

https://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2015/results_merged/topic_age_dist.pdf

Examples

print(age_dist)
#>    age_cat age_bot age_top age_mid   prop
#> 1:  0 - 19       0      19     9.5 0.0000
#> 2: 20 - 34      20      34    27.0 0.0002
#> 3: 35 - 44      35      44    39.5 0.0100
#> 4: 45 - 54      45      54    49.5 0.0740
#> 5: 55 - 64      55      64    59.5 0.2170
#> 6: 65 - 74      65      74    69.5 0.3340
#> 7: 75 - 84      75      84    79.5 0.2680
#> 8:     85+      85     100    92.5 0.0940
attr(age_dist, "mean")
#> [1] 70.38598
attr(age_dist, "sd")
#> [1] 11.67923