Estimating Disease Prevalence from Registry Data


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Documentation for package ‘rprev’ version 0.2.0

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rprev-package rprev: Estimate disease point prevalence using a combination of registry data and Monte Carlo simulations.
determine_registry_years Calculate yearly dates.
functional_form_age View the suitability of a linear effect of age on hazard.
incidence Summarise disease incidence.
incidence_age_distribution Plot the age distribution of incident cases.
mean_incidence_rate Mean disease incidence.
plot.incidence Visualise disease incidence.
plot.survfit.prev Plot bootstrapped survival curves.
population_survival_rate Transform yearly mortality rates to daily.
prevalence Estimate point prevalence at an index date.
prevalence_counted Count prevalence from registry data.
prevalence_simulated Estimate prevalence using Monte Carlo simulation.
prevsim Simulated patient dataset.
raw_incidence Disease incidence.
rprev rprev: Estimate disease point prevalence using a combination of registry data and Monte Carlo simulations.
summary.survfit.prev Obtain N-year survival probability estimates.
survfit.prevalence Form bootstrapped survival curves.
test_incidence_fit Test homogeneous Poisson assumption of disease incidence.
test_prevalence_fit Test simulated prevalence fit.
UKmortality General population survival data.