APCtools: Descriptive and Model-Based Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

MCML Authors

Alexander Bauer

Dr.

* Former Member

→ Group Helmut Küchenhoff
 Statistical Consulting Unit (StaBLab)

Maximilian Weigert

* Former Member

→ Group Helmut Küchenhoff
 Statistical Consulting Unit (StaBLab)

Abstract

Age-Period-Cohort (APC) analysis aims to determine relevant drivers for long-term developments and is used in many fields of science (Yang & Land, 2013). The R package APCtools offers modern visualization techniques and general routines to facilitate the interpretability of the interdependent temporal structures and to simplify the workflow of an APC analysis. Separation of the temporal effects is performed utilizing a semiparametric regression approach. We shortly discuss the challenges of APC analysis, give an overview of existing statistical software packages and outline the main functionalities of the package.

article BWJ22

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The Journal of Open Source Software

7.73. May. 2022.

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Authors

A. Bauer • M. Weigert • H. Jalal

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Research Area

 C4 | Computational Social Sciences