RiskScore {babsim.hospital}

Calculate risk scores

Description

Calculate a risk score based on age and sex of patient for a set of cases.

Usage

RiskScore(cases, par)

Arguments

cases

[object]
table of cases, one per row.

par

[list()]
parameters of risk model.

Details

The risk score is calculated according to the following formula:

\code{RiskScore} = \code{RiskFactorA} exp(\code{RiskFactorB} \code{age}) (1 + I_{male} (\code{RiskMale} - 1)

Here the RiskFactorA, RiskFactorB and RiskMale are taken from the parameter list par and the age and sex are taken from the cases .

Value

Vector of risk scores.