Healthcare Analysis Methods

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Documentation for package ‘ham’ version 1.4.0

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
• Package NEWS.

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alpha	Calculates Cronbach's alpha on scale items
assess	Assess models with regression
Bayes	Summarize Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) object
cas	Patient survey data
co2mcmc	Markov Chain Monte Carlo linear regression estimates of plant's CO2 uptake regressed on ambient carbon dioxide concentrations
co2multi	Bayes class object with summarized Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimates of plant's CO2 uptake as a binary variable that is above or below the median level
compapt	VA's completed hospital appointments made in the reporting period ending in December, 2020.
control	Statistics for Shewhart control charts
covshort	The US Department of Health and Human Services data for state reported hospital's critical staff shortage or not for December 14, 2020.
decide	Statistics for Decision Curve Analysis and logistic regression model classification
group	Group level confidence intervals and between-group variation
hosp1	Patient hospital program/intervention data, intervention group only
hosprog	Patient hospital program/intervention data
importance	Importance of variables based on partial chi-square statistic
infections	Hospital acquired infections (HAI) during 41 months.
interpret	Interpret model output
itsEffect	Interrupted time series analysis effects
losmcmc	Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimates of hospital length of stay from the hosprog data frame
losvary	Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimates of the differences-in-differences of mean and variation for the hospital length of stay from the hosprog data frame
NHSN	NHSN standardized incidence ratios for 4 incidents, 2016-2024.
plot.assess	Prediction plot of treatment and control groups for DID and ITS models and OLS, logistic, Poisson, and Cox models
plot.Bayes	Bayesian plots for various analyses
plot.control	Shewhart control charts
plot.decide	Decision Curve Analysis plots and regression model classification graphs on sensitivity and specificity
plot.group	Confidence interval graphs for group class objects
plot.importance	Plot of variable importance ranked by partial chi-square statistic
plot.review	Plot of a regression model's coefficient review
print.alpha	Print alpha results
print.interpret	Print interpret object
print.review	Print Model Review Results
review	Creates a review object of regression model results for graphing purposes
unemployment	USA's unemployment rate between 1929 and 2024