aggregate.DALY: Aggregate method for class 'DALY'

In DALY: The DALY Calculator - Graphical User Interface for Probabilistic DALY Calculation in R

Description

Aggregate DALY Calculator output by outcome, age/sex class, or both.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'DALY'
aggregate(x, by = c("total", "class", "outcome"), ...)

Arguments

x	Object of class 'DALY'
by	Any of c("total", "outcome", "class")
...	Additional arguments to be passed to aggregate

Value

For by = "total":

DALY	Vector of DALYs aggregated by outcome and age/sex class
YLD	Vector of YLDs aggregated by outcome and age/sex class
YLL	Vector of YLLs aggregated by outcome and age/sex class
cases	Vector of cases aggregated by outcome and age/sex class
deaths	Vector of deaths aggregated by outcome and age/sex class
pop	Population matrix
name	Name of the disease

For by = "class":

DALY	Vector of DALYs aggregated by age/sex class
YLD	Vector of YLDs aggregated by age/sex class
YLL	Vector of YLLs aggregated by age/sex class
cases	Vector of cases aggregated by age/sex class
deaths	Vector of deaths aggregated by age/sex class
pop	Population matrix
name	Name of the disease

For by = "outcome":

i	List containing vectors of DALYs, YLDs, YLLs, cases and deaths for each outcome i
pop	Population matrix
name	Name of the disease

Author(s)

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See Also

print.DALY, summary.DALY

DALYcalculator (for a brief description of the DALY Calculator)
DALYmanual (for a more comprehensive overview)

Examples

## Not run: 

##= load the NCC example ==================================
setDALYexample(1)

##= perform DALY calculation, store results in 'x' ========
x <- getDALY()

##= store simulations aggregated by =======================
##= outcome and age/sex class     =========================
y <- aggregate(x, by = "total")

summary(y$DALY)  # default summary of total DALYs =========
hist(y$deaths)   # default histogram of total deaths ======

## End(Not run)

DALY documentation built on May 2, 2019, 12:19 p.m.