mattkumar/dsr

dsr

Directly Standardized Rates and Rate Ratios

dsr's Issues

Fail to install the package by install_github

I tried to install the package by install_github but got the following error message:

Error: Failed to install 'dsr' from GitHub:
  ! System command 'Rcmd.exe' failed

Is there any way to install the package?

Rescaling weights with absent levels

Currently, if there are missing combinations of standardization variable levels in the sample data relative to the reference/population data, the weights are not scaled correctly. This is due to the left_join function in the various functions in the package.

E.g. age standardized rates
Ref Data: 5 distinct age bands with population sizes
Sample Data: 4 of the 5 age bands are present, 1 age band wasn't observed.

Rates are being calculated by rescaling the ref data to just the 4 levels that are present in the sample data which is incorrect.

To be safe, check that your sample data has all the levels of the standardization variables present in the ref data. Fix is being worked on.

by more than one subgroups

Hi,

I'm wondering whether the package can handle more than one subgroups? Say, age-standardized rate by year, sex, and geography?

Currently it seems that it can only handle one subgroup.

Thanks!

Yao

dsr removed from CRAN

The package has been removed from CRAN due to "Archived on 2020-08-26 as requires archived package 'frailtypack'.. ". Is it coming back?

Should the variance calculation multiply by the constant mp as well?

Hi there,

Some reviewers raised up this issue: should variance be multiplied by the constant mp?

I don't think there is a need but just double check.

Thanks!

Yao