hesim_data {hesim}

Data for health economic simulation modeling

Description

A list of tables required for health economic simulation modeling. This object is used to setup models by defining the treatment strategies, target population, and model structure.

Usage

hesim_data(strategies, patients, states = NULL, transitions = NULL)

Arguments

strategies

A table of treatment strategies. Must contain the column strategy_id denoting a unique strategy. Other columns are variables describing the characteristics of a treatment strategy.

patients

A table of patients. Must contain the column patient_id denoting a unique patient. The number of rows should be equal to the number of patients in the model. The table may also include columns for grp_id for subgroups and patient_wt specifying the weight to apply to each patient (within a subgroup). If grp_id is NULL, then it is assumed that there is only one subgroup. If patient_wt is NULL. then each patient is given the same weight. Weights cannot be used in individual-level models because each patient should be weighted equally; that is, weights can only be specified in cohort models. Weights within subgroups are normalized to sum to one. Other columns are variables describing the characteristics of a patient.

states

A table of health states. Must contain the column state_id, which denotes a unique health state. The number of rows should be equal to the number of health states in the model. Other columns can describe the characteristics of a health state.

transitions

A table of health state transitions. Must contain the column transition_id, which denotes a unique transition; from, which denotes the starting health state; and to which denotes the state that will be transitioned to.

Value

Returns an object of class hesim_data, which is a list of data tables for health economic simulation modeling.

Note

Each table must either be a data.frame or data.table. All ID variables within each table must be numeric vectors of integers and should be of the form 1,2,...N where N is the number of unique values of the ID variable.

See Also

expand.hesim_data(), get_labels()

Examples

strategies <- data.frame(strategy_id = c(1, 2))
patients <- data.frame(patient_id = seq(1, 3), age = c(65, 50, 75),
                       gender = c("Female", "Female", "Male"))
states <- data.frame(state_id =  seq(1, 3),
                     state_var = c(2, 1, 9))
hesim_dat <- hesim_data(strategies = strategies,
                        patients = patients,
                        states = states)