dceasimR: Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Technology Assessment

Implements distributional cost-effectiveness analysis (DCEA) as described in Cookson et al. (2020, ISBN:9780198838197) and the methods endorsed by NICE (2025) for health technology evaluation. Provides functions for both aggregate and full-form DCEA, inequality measurement (Atkinson index, Gini coefficient, slope index of inequality, relative index of inequality), social welfare function evaluation, equity-efficiency impact plane visualisation, and sensitivity analysis over inequality aversion parameters. Includes baseline health distributions for England (by IMD quintile), Canada (income quintile), and global WHO regions. Suitable for academic research, health technology assessment submissions, and public health policy analysis.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), tibble (≥ 3.2.0), scales (≥ 1.3.0), stats
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), openxlsx, flextable, covr, vdiffr
Published: 2026-04-21
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.dceasimR
Author: Shubhram Pandey ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Shubhram Pandey <shubhram.pandey at heorlytics.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/heorlytics/dceasimR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://heorlytics.github.io/dceasimR/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: dceasimR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: dceasimR.html , dceasimR.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (source, R code)
Aggregate DCEA Tutorial (source, R code)
Full-Form DCEA Tutorial (source, R code)
Inequality Measurement in DCEA (source, R code)
Social Welfare Functions in DCEA (source, R code)
NICE Submission Workflow (source, R code)
International Applications of DCEA (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: dceasimR_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: dceasimR_0.1.0.zip, r-release: dceasimR_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: dceasimR_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): dceasimR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): dceasimR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): dceasimR_0.1.0.tgz

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