simaerep (version 1.0.0)

get_cum_mean_event_dev: Get cumulative mean event development

Description

Calculate average increase of events per visit and cumulative average increase.

Usage

get_cum_mean_event_dev(
  df_visit,
  group = c("site_number", "study_id"),
  event_names = c("ae")
)

Arguments

df_visit

Data frame with columns: study_id, site_number, patnum, visit, n_ae.

group

character, grouping variable, one of: c("site_number", "study_id")

event_names

vector, contains the event names, default = "event"

Details

This is more stable than using mean cumulative patient count per visit as only a few patients will contribute to later visits. Here the impact of the later visits is reduced as they can only add or subtract to the results from earlier visits and not shift the mean independently.

Examples

df_visit <- sim_test_data_study(n_pat = 1000, n_sites = 10) %>%
  dplyr::rename(
    site_number = site_id,
    patnum = patient_id,
    n_ae = n_event
  )

get_cum_mean_event_dev(df_visit)
get_cum_mean_event_dev(df_visit, group = "study_id")