BCEA 2.3-2

• Major refactoring of code base to improve robustness and extensibility.
  • bcea() is now a helper function which calls the constructor new_bcea(), separating concerns.
  • new_bcea() composed of smaller HEE statistics functions with names starting with compute_ e.g. compute_CEAC(), compute_EIB(),…. This allows us to call and test them individually. It also allows more flexibility in changing or adding functionality to new_bcea().
  • Plotting functions have been rewritten. These functions now simply dispatch to the base R, ggplot2 or plotly versions (think strategy pattern). Internally, these functions, e.g.ceplane_plot_ggplot(), are also split into parameter and data setting and plotting components. This modulisation allows us to add new layers to plots or modify existing parameter sets and defaults. We could also return the data without the plotting step as in e.g. ggplot2::autoplot(). It also means we can reuse some functionality across plots such as axes and legend setting e.g. BCEA:::where_legend().
  • Plots and tables using S3 methods for bcea type object.
  • New vignettes about plotting and comparison intervention setting.
  • Tables updated. Duplication in summary() and sim_table() removed.
  • createInputs() used for EVPI calculation now dispatches S3 methods by JAGS, BUGS, Stan and other R data types.
• Extend ways to set comparison interventions. Subsets of comparison can still be set in a call to a plotting function as before. Now subsets can be set in both the original bcea() construction or separately using a setter functions setComparisons().
• Similarly, maximum willingness to pay and the reference group can be set with setKmax() and setReferenceGroup(), respectively.
• multi.ce() and CEriskAv() also now work similarly. They operate by modifying the bcea object, rather than creating new one (think decorator pattern).
• ceac_plot() changes
  • Deprecated mce.plot(). Now dispatched on ceac.plot() for both multi.ce() and bcea() outputs.
  • For a multiple comparison the plot for pairwise comparison over all interventions is returned by default. The alternative version of each comparison against the reference group is still available.
• Additional help documentation and examples.
• make.report() rewritten to have separate section files.
• Testing suite started. This is not comprehensive as of yet.
• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package. Details about previous releases, such as dates, versions, fixes and enhancements obtained from CRAN and code comments so a little patchy.
• pkgdown GitHub site made.
• Cheatsheet written and published on RStudio site.

BCEA 2.3-1.1

26 Aug 2019

BCEA 2.3-1

5 Aug 2019

BCEA 2.2-6

11 July 2018

• Fix in evppi to allow N to be selected in all methods
• Fix diag.evppi

BCEA 2.2-5

18 Nov 2016

• Some changes to EVPPI

BCEA 2.2.4

Nov 2016

• Fixes for new ggplot2 version (legend.spacing() and plot.title hjust argument)

BCEA 2.2-3

22 May 2016

• Major update for the EVPPI to include PFC
• Fixed issues with info.rank

BCEA 2.2-2

25 Jan 2016

• Minor change to ceef.plot to align with ggplot2 v2.0.0

BCEA 2.2.1

Oct 2015

• Adds the info-rank plot

BCEA 2.2

Oct 2015

• Cleaned up and aligned with R’s settings
• EVPPI function polished up

BCEA 2.1-1

6 May 2015 2015

• New function for EVPPI using SPDE-INLA
• Modifications to the EVPPI functions
• Documentation updated
• Allows xlim & ylim in the ceplane.plot, contour and contour2 functions
• It is now possible to run bcea for a scalar wtp
• Old evppi function and method has been renamed evppi0, which means there’s also a new plot.evppi0 method

BCEA 2.1-0

13 Jan 2015

• Migrated from if(require()) to if(requireNamespace(,quietly=TRUE))
• Documentation updated
• Added threshold argument to ceef.plot function

BCEA 2.1.0-pre2

Oct 2014

• modifications to ceef.plot, createInputs, struct.psa

BCEA 2.1-0-pre1

13 Jan 2015

• Documentation updated
• Smoking dataset and ceef.plot function included, additional modifications

BCEA 2.0-2c

2 Dec 2013

BCEA v2.0-2b

2 Dec 2013

• ceac.plot and eib.plot: option comparison included for base graphics

BCEA 2.0-2

2 Dec 2013

BCEA 2.0-1

31 July 2013

BCEA 2.0

30 July 2013

Feature updates

• Implements two quick and general methods to compute the EVPPI
• Function CreateInputs(), which takes as input an object in the class rjags or bugs
• Compute the EVPPI for one or more parameters calling the function evppi()
• Results can be visualised using the specific method plot for the class evppi and show the overall EVPI with the EVPPI for the selected parameter(s)

BCEA 1.3-1

BCEA 1.3-0

3 July 2013

BCEA 1.2

17 September 2012

BCEA 1.1.1

22 Feb 2013

BCEA 1.1

15 Sept 2012

BCEA 1.0

13 May 2012