tornado_plot: Draw a tornado diagram.

In rdecision: Decision Analytic Modelling in Health Economics

Draw a tornado diagram.

Description

A function to plot a tornado diagram, given a data frame of model variable names, their confidence limits and the values of the outcome variable for each. The outcome measure (x axis) is expected to be cost, ICER, net monetary benefit, etc., but can be any meaningful quantity.

Usage

tornado_plot(to, outcome_mean, xlab = "")

Arguments

to	A data frame with one row per horizontal bar of the tornado plot, with columns: Description Description of the variable. Units Units of the variable. LL Lower limit of the variable. UL Upper limit of the variable. outcome.min Minimum value of the outcome measure. outcome.max Maximum value of the outcome measure.
outcome_mean	Mean (base case) outcome.
xlab	Label for x axis

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