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eq5dds

Analyse the descriptive system of an EQ-5D dataset

Description

Analyses the descriptive components of an EQ-5D dataset producing summary information either as counts or as percentages.

Usage

eq5dds(data, version, counts = FALSE, by = NULL, ...)

Arguments

`data`	data.frame with names MO, SC, UA, PD and AD representing Mobility, Self-care, Usual activities, Pain/discomfort and Anxiety/depression.
`version`	string of value "3L" or "5L" to indicate instrument version.
`counts`	logical show absolute counts in the summary table. Default is FALSE, which shows percentages for each EQ-5D dimension.
`by`	character specifying the column in the data.frame by which to group the results.
`...`	character vector, specifying "dimensions" column names. Defaults are "MO", "SC", "UA", "PD" and "AD".

Value

a data.frame or list of data.frames of counts/percentages. Columns contain dimensions names and rows the EQ-5D score.

Examples

dat <- data.frame(
         matrix(
           sample(1:3,5*12, replace=TRUE),12,5, 
           dimnames=list(1:12,c("MO","SC","UA","PD","AD"))
         ),
         Sex=rep(c("Male", "Female"))
       )

eq5dds(dat, version="3L")
eq5dds(dat, version="3L", counts=TRUE)

eq5dds(dat, version="3L", by="Sex")

eq5d

Methods for Analysing 'EQ-5D' Data and Calculating 'EQ-5D' Index Scores

v0.10.0

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Fraser Morton [aut, cre], Jagtar Singh Nijjar [aut]

Initial release