Package: PHEindicatormethods
Type: Package
Version: 2.1.1
Title: Common Public Health Statistics and their Confidence Intervals
Description: Functions to calculate commonly used public health
        statistics and their confidence intervals using methods
        approved for use in the production of Public Health England
        indicators such as those presented via Fingertips
        (<https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/>). It provides functions for
        the generation of proportions, crude rates, means, directly
        standardised rates, indirectly standardised rates, standardised
        mortality ratios, slope and relative index of inequality and
        life expectancy. Statistical methods are referenced in the
        following publications. Breslow NE, Day NE (1987)
        <doi:10.1002/sim.4780080614>. Dobson et al (1991)
        <doi:10.1002/sim.4780100317>. Armitage P, Berry G (2002)
        <doi:10.1002/9780470773666>. Wilson EB. (1927)
        <doi:10.1080/01621459.1927.10502953>. Altman DG et al (2000,
        ISBN: 978-0-727-91375-3). Chiang CL. (1968, ISBN:
        978-0-882-75200-6). Newell C. (1994, ISBN: 978-0-898-62451-9).
        Eayres DP, Williams ES (2004) <doi:10.1136/jech.2003.009654>.
        Silcocks PBS et al (2001) <doi:10.1136/jech.55.1.38>. Low and
        Low (2004) <doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdh175>. Fingertips Public
        Health Technical Guide:
        <https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/guidance/supporting-information/PH-methods/>.
Authors@R: c(person("Georgina", "Anderson", email = "georgina.anderson@dhsc.gov.uk", role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Sebastian", "Fox ", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Matthew", "Francis ", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Emma", "Clegg ",  role = c("ctb")),
             person("Annabel", "Westermann ", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Joshua", "Woolner ", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Charlotte", "Fellows ", email = "charlotte.fellows@dhsc.gov.uk", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Olivia", "Box Power", email = "Olivia.BoxPower@dhsc.gov.uk", role = c("ctb")),
             person("Paul", "Fryers ", email = "paul.fryers@dhsc.gov.uk", role = c("rev")),
             person("Department of Health and Social Care", role = c("cph"))
             )
BugReports: https://github.com/dhsc-govuk/PHEindicatormethods/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.3.0)
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Imports: broom (>= 1.0.0), dplyr (>= 1.1.0), purrr (>= 1.0.0), rlang
        (>= 1.1.0), stats, tibble (>= 3.2.0), tidyselect (>= 1.2.0),
        tidyr (>= 1.3.0), lifecycle
Suggests: knitr (>= 1.48), readxl (>= 1.4.0), rmarkdown (>= 2.28),
        testthat (>= 3.0.0), withr (>= 3.0.0)
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev
Repository: https://dhsc-govuk.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-11-18 14:57:31 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/dhsc-govuk/pheindicatormethods
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 2317716fe39d026e4502983fa36a09dfeaf3a853
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-16 09:14:21 UTC; root
Author: Georgina Anderson [aut, cre],
  Sebastian Fox [ctb],
  Matthew Francis [ctb],
  Emma Clegg [ctb],
  Annabel Westermann [ctb],
  Joshua Woolner [ctb],
  Charlotte Fellows [ctb],
  Olivia Box Power [ctb],
  Paul Fryers [rev],
  Department of Health and Social Care [cph]
Maintainer: Georgina Anderson <georgina.anderson@dhsc.gov.uk>