sim_cohort_vac_cam: Identify those that are eligible for a vaccination program...

In seabbs/DirectEffBCGPolicyChange: Estimating the direct effect of the 2005 UK BCG vaccination policy change.

Description

This function identifies those that are eligible for vaccination programs and tracks their age specific incidence over years since vaccination. It does this by,

• Produces a data set with year of eligibility as a variable

• Does this for both the universal and targeted schemes

• Adds a variables for years since entry to scheme - both universal and targetted

• Adds a flag for before or after policy change (i.e 2005 switch)

Usage

sim_cohort_vac_cam(df, eligib_vector, campaign, policy_change_yr = 2005)

Arguments

df	A dataframe
eligib_vector	Numeric year identifying eligibility.
campaign	A character string identifying the name of the campaign.
policy_change_yr	Numeric year identifying the year of the policy change.

Value

A simulate cohort for a given vaccination program correctly formatted as a retrospective cohort.

seabbs/DirectEffBCGPolicyChange documentation built on Dec. 14, 2019, 9:24 p.m.