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An S7 class for representing Health Technology Assessment endpoints, with integration to the chef pipeline for AMNOG-style analyses.

Usage

HTAEndpoint(
  name = character(0),
  variable = character(0),
  type = character(0),
  description = NULL,
  hypothesis = "superiority",
  margin = NULL,
  alpha = 0.05,
  metadata = list(),
  chef_spec = list(),
  strata = character(0),
  criteria = list()
)

Arguments

name

Character string for endpoint name

variable

Character string for variable name in the dataset

type

Character string for endpoint type

description

Character string for endpoint description

hypothesis

Character string for hypothesis type

margin

Numeric value for non-inferiority margin

alpha

Numeric value for significance level

metadata

List of additional metadata

chef_spec

List containing chef endpoint specification

strata

Character vector of stratification variables

criteria

List of inclusion criteria for chef pipeline

Value

An HTAEndpoint object

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
endpoint <- HTAEndpoint(
  name = "Response Rate",
  variable = "AVALC",
  type = "binary",
  strata = c("SEX", "AGEGR1")
)
} # }