PHEindicatormethods

PHEindicatormethods-package

<p>PHEindicatormethods: A package for performing standard statistics for public
health indicators</p>

Functions to calculate commonly used public health statistics and
their confidence intervals using methods approved for use in the production
of Public Health England indicators such as those presented via Fingertips
(<http://fingertips.phe.org.uk/>). It provides functions for the generation
of proportions, crude rates, means, directly standardised rates, indirectly
standardised rates, standardised mortality ratios, slope and relative index
of inequality and life expectancy.
Statistical methods are referenced in the following publications.
Breslow NE, Day NE (1987) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780080614>.
Dobson et al (1991) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780100317>.
Armitage P, Berry G (2002) <doi:10.1002/9780470773666>.
Wilson EB. (1927) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1927.10502953>.
Altman DG et al (2000, ISBN: 978-0-727-91375-3).
Chiang CL. (1968, ISBN: 978-0-882-75200-6).
Newell C. (1994, ISBN: 978-0-898-62451-9).
Eayres DP, Williams ES (2004) <doi:10.1136/jech.2003.009654>.
Silcocks PBS et al (2001) <doi:10.1136/jech.55.1.38>.
Low and Low (2004) <doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh175>.

Anderson Georgina

Common Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals

Fox Sebastian

Francis Matthew

Fryers Paul

Clegg Emma

PHEindicatormethods function

PHEindicatormethods: A package for performing standard statistics for public
health indicators — PHEindicatormethods

PHEindicatormethods: A package for performing standard statistics for public
health indicators

PHEindicatormethods: PHEindicatormethods: A package for performing standard statistics for public health indicators

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