Changelog

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dceasimR 0.1.0

Initial CRAN submission

• First release of dceasimR — the first comprehensive R package for Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA) on CRAN.

New functions

• run_aggregate_dcea() — aggregate DCEA following Love-Koh et al. (2019)
• run_full_dcea() — full-form DCEA with subgroup-specific parameters
• calc_sii() / calc_rii() — Slope and Relative Index of Inequality
• calc_concentration_index() — standard, Erreygers, and Wagstaff variants
• calc_atkinson_index() — Atkinson inequality index
• calc_gini() — Gini coefficient for health distributions
• calc_all_inequality_indices() — calculate all indices in one call
• calc_ede() / calc_ede_profile() — Equally Distributed Equivalent health
• calc_social_welfare() — social welfare function analysis
• calc_equity_weights() / calc_equity_weighted_nhb() — equity weighting
• get_baseline_health() — preloaded baseline HALE data (England, Canada, WHO)
• merge_cea_with_baseline() — merge CEA output with baseline distributions
• plot_equity_impact_plane() — equity-efficiency impact plane visualisation
• plot_lorenz_curve() — Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves
• plot_ede_profile() — EDE profile across eta range
• plot_inequality_staircase() — causal pathway staircase visualisation
• run_dcea_sensitivity() — sensitivity analysis over key DCEA parameters
• plot_dcea_tornado() — tornado diagram for sensitivity results
• generate_nice_table() — NICE-formatted submission tables
• export_dcea_excel() — Excel export in NICE submission format
• generate_dcea_report() — full HTML/Word/PDF DCEA reports

Datasets

• england_imd_hale — England HALE by IMD quintile (PHE/OHID)
• england_imd_qol — EQ-5D utility norms by IMD and age band
• canada_income_hale — Canada HALE by income quintile
• who_regions_hale — WHO regional HALE data
• example_cea_output — hypothetical CEA output for examples
• nsclc_dcea_example — NSCLC worked example from literature