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R arm of morie.fn.cdyll and hecea. Cdyll: years of life lost, the sum of deaths times remaining life expectancy at the age of death (undiscounted). Hecea: percentage of joint (cost, effect) differences in each quadrant of the cost-effectiveness plane.

Usage

Cdyll(deaths, life_expectancy_remaining)

Hecea(cost_diffs, effect_diffs)

Arguments

deaths

Deaths by age group.

life_expectancy_remaining

Remaining life expectancy at those ages.

cost_diffs, effect_diffs

Simulated incremental costs and effects.

Value

A named list (the Python result's fields).

References

Murray, C. J. L. (1994). Quantifying the burden of disease. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 72, 429-445.

Black, W. C. (1990). The CE plane. Medical Decision Making 10, 212-214.

Examples

Cdyll(c(2, 1, 3), c(30.5, 12, 4))$estimate
#> [1] 85
Hecea(c(1, -2, 3, 0.5), c(0.1, 0.2, -0.3, 0.4))$value
#> $NE
#> [1] 50
#> 
#> $NW
#> [1] 25
#> 
#> $SE
#> [1] 25
#> 
#> $SW
#> [1] 0
#>