odk2EAVA: odk2EAVA

In EAVA: Deterministic Verbal Autopsy Coding with Expert Algorithm Verbal Autopsy

odk2EAVA

Description

Converts 2016 WHO verbal autopsy (VA) data to an input file for Expert Algorithm Verbal Autopsy cause of death assignment by the codEAVA() function

Usage

odk2EAVA(odk, id_col)

Arguments

odk	A data frame which used open data kit (odk) to obtain 2016 WHO VA questionnaire responses
id_col	A unique identifier for each record within the odk data frame

Value

A data frame that contains variable names and values which have been converted to openVA convention

References

Thomas J, Choi E, Li Z, Maire N, McCormick T, Byass P, Clark S (2021). CrossVA: Verbal Autopsy Data Transformation for InSilicoVA and InterVA5 Algorithms_. R package version 1.0.0, <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=CrossVA>.

Examples

{
# load embedded example data or data from WHO 2016 Verbal Autopsy Questionnaire
data <- as.data.frame(data_public)
# run odk2EAVA()
output <- odk2EAVA(data, id_col  = "comsa_id")
# view data converted for use in codEAVA()
head(output)
}

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