Installing the ready4 framework foundation library
The ready4 framework foundation is the first ready4 library you should install.
The ready4 framework foundation is the first ready4 library you should install.
Instructions for installing the ready4class, ready4fun and ready4pack libraries.
ready4 provides a template to facilitate modular implementation of health economic models.
Releases of foundation and authoring tools libraries to implement the ready4 framework.
Instructions for installing the ready4use library.
Methods are associated with ready4 modules using a novel syntax.
Depending on how you plan to use ready4, you may need to install some or all of its authoring tools.
Instructions for installing the ready4show library.
To implement a modelling analysis with ready4 you need to install computational model modules.
We created a basic synthetic dataset of to represent a clinical youth mental health sample.
ready4 includes tools that can help maintain the documentation website for a modelling project.
ready4 uses an object oriented programming (OOP) paradigm to implement computational models.
The ready4class R package supports partially automated and standardised workflows for defining the data structures to be used in computational models.
ready4 uses functional programming to maximise the re-usability of model algorithms.
The ready4fun R package supports standardised approaches to code authoring that facilitate partial automation of the documenting of model algorithms.
ready4 supports tools to streamline the testing, description and distribution of computational model modules.
Tools from the ready4 R library can help find details about module libraries from a modelling project.
Apply model modules using a simple and consistent syntax.
A tutorial from the Acumen website about using ready4 to search and retrieve data from the Australian Mental Health Systems Models Dataverse.
Online open access data repositories are the preferred storage locations for ready4 model datasets.
Costing health economic datasets is an activity that can involve repeated use of lookup tables. This tutorial describes how a module from the costly R package can help you to use a combination of fuzzy logic and correspondence tables to standardise variable values and thus facilitate partial automation of costing algorithms.
The ready4 library provides tools to help retrieve details of model module collections and documentation on individual model modules.
Tools from the ready4 R library can help find details about the use of individual model modules.
Tools from the ready4show R package support authoring of scientific summaries of analyses with ready4.
Pairing a dataset with its dictionary makes it easier to interpret. This tutorial describes how a module from the ready4use R package can help you to pair a dataset and its dictionary.
This tutorial describes how a module from the costly R package can help you to use lookup codes to standardise variable values and thus facilitate partial automation of costing algorithms.
Appending appropriate metadata to datasets of individual unit records can facilitate partial automation of some modelling tasks. This tutorial describes how a module from the youthvars R package can help you to add metadata to a youth mental health dataset so that it can be more readily used by other ready4 modules.
Vector based classes can be used to help validate variable values. This tutorial describes how to do that with sub-module classes exported as part of the youthvars R package.
The ready4use R package provides tools for supplying data to model modules.
The ready4 framework provides tools to support the authoring of programs and subroutines to run and report analyses with ready4.
The retrieval and dissemination of data from online data repositories is an essential enabler of open source modelling. This tutorial describes how a module from the ready4use R package can help you to manage this process.
Using modules from the scorz R package, individual responses to a multi-attribute utility instrument survey can be converted into health utility total scores. This tutorial describes how to do for adolescent AQoL-6D health utility.
Using modules from the specific R package, it is possible to undertake an exploratory utility mapping analysis. This tutorial illustrates a hypotehtical example of exploring how to map to EQ-5D health utility.
Using modules from the TTU R package, it is possible to implement a fully reproducible utility mapping study. This tutorial illustrates the main steps using a hypothetical AQoL-6D utility mapping study.
Using tools (soon to be formalised into ready4 modules) from the youthu R package, it is possible to find and deploy relevant utility mapping algorithms. This tutorial illustrates the main steps for predicting AQoL-6D utility from psychological and functional measures collected on clinical samples of young people.
We used functions (soon to be formalised into ready4 modules) from the mychoice R package to design to a discrete choice experiment.
Using tools (soon to be formalised into ready4 framework modules) from the youthu R package, it is possible to use utility mapping algorithms to help implement cost-utility analyses. This tutorial illustrates the main steps for doing so using psychological and functional measures collected on clinical samples of young people.
Using tools (soon to be formalised into ready4 framework modules) from the mychoice R package, it is possible to develop choice models from responses to a discrete choice experiment survey.
Using functions (soon to be formalised into ready4 framework modules) from the mychoice R package, it is possible to develop choice models from responses to a discrete choice experiment survey.
Using modules from the TTU, youthvars, scorz and specific libraries, we developed utility mapping algorithms from a sample of young people attending primary mental health care services.
Using functions (soon to be formalised into ready4 framework modules) from the youthu R package, we predicted health utility for a synthetic population of young people attending primary mental health care services.
There are two types of framework libraries - a foundational library and libraries of authoring tools.
The ready4 framework is distributed as six R libraries.
Each ready4 code library is supported by a standardised set of documentation resources.
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A subroutine for generating catalogues of utility mapping models created with the TTU library.
A template subroutine for generating a scientific manuscript for use with the ready4show library.
A subroutine for generating a scientific manuscript of a longitudinal utility mapping study undertaken with the TTU library.
A subroutine for a summary of the main results from a Discrete Choice Experiment implemented with the mychoice library.