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This repository aim to collect the confidential (not public) work of the EU project BEST-COST in the framework of the workpackages (WPs).
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Defaul duration for YLL #322

Open luytax opened 1 month ago

luytax commented 1 month ago

In the pull #308 I mentioned that "it is now possible to define central_duration as well (default value is 100). This has the additional benefit that we can cover the user case in which the YLL's for the next 20 years should be calculated." to which you replied that "Regarding duration, the default value cannot be 100. We do not know the size of the mortality data. The maximum age could be 100 or many others. We need a default value based on the size of mortality data."

luytax commented 1 month ago

Regarding duration, the default value cannot be 100. We do not know the size of the mortality data. The maximum age could be 100 or many others. We need a default value based on the size of mortality data.

Yes, the size of the mortality data could indeed be 100 or any other value. I agree that the size of the mortality data makes a good default value. However, we have to keep in mind two cases where this might be inappropriate : 1) When the goal is to assess the impact of an intervention/exposure until a specific point, e.g. until the year 2030 (Enrico talked about that also at the GA). 2) When there are newborns included in the life table analysis. In this case, the max age of the population matters less, because there are always new people being born.