Analyzing the young adult mortality hump in R with MortHump

MortHumpis an R package designed to provide ready-to-use methods to analyse the young adult mortality hump. It contains functions to•format all-cause and cause-of-death data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and the Human Cause-of-Death Database (HCD) respectively,•identify and group causes of death that are likely to contribute to the young adult mortality hump,•estimate parametric and non-parametric models that isolate the young adult mortality hump from the rest of the force of mortality, decomposing when needed by cause of death,•measure the young adult mortality hump by computing summary statistics about its magnitude, location and spread, optionally by cause of death.This technical paper is meant as a user guide for the MortHump package and provides examples on how to use its functions