utility {aldvmm}

Simulated Example Data of Health State Utilities.

Description

utility is a simulated data frame including health state utilities and patients' age and sex.

Usage

utility

Format

A data frame with 200 rows and 3 variables:

utility	a utility value {[-0.594, 0.883], 1}.
age	Age in years.
female	Indicator of female sex.

Examples

set.seed(101010101)
utility                 <- data.frame(female = rbinom(size = 1,
                                      n      = 200,
                                      p      = 0.6))
utility[, 'age']        <- stats::rnorm(n    = 200,
                                        mean = 50 + utility$female*10,
                                        sd   = 15)
utility[1:50, 'eq5d']   <- stats::rnorm(n    = 50,
                                        mean = 0 - 0.1 *
                                              utility[1:50, 'female'] +
                                              0.0005 * utility[1:50, 'age'],
                                        sd   = 0.1)
utility[51:200, 'eq5d'] <- stats::rnorm(n    = 150,
                                        mean = 0.5 +
                                           0.1 * utility[51:200, 'female'] +
                                           0.0001*utility[51:200, 'age'],
                                        sd   = 0.2)
utility[utility$eq5d<(-0.594), 'eq5d'] <- -0.594
utility[utility$eq5d>0.883, 'eq5d'] <- 1
hist(utility$eq5d, breaks = 50)