[R-pkgs] New release: yll package to compute (average) years of life lost in survival analysis

[Antoine Soetewey]

Dear all,

A new package, yll, has been released on CRAN on November 2.

yll aims at computing the standard expected years of life lost (YLL), as developed by the Global Burden of Disease Study (Murray, C.J., Lopez, A.D. and World Health Organization, 1996<http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/41864/096554660?sequence=1>). The YLL is based on comparing the age of death to an external standard life expectancy curve. The package also provides a function to computes the average YLL, which highlights premature causes of death and brings attention to preventable deaths (Aragon et al., 2008<https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1471-2458-8-116>).

The package is particulary useful in biostatistics and survival analysis.

For more information see https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=yll<https://cran.r-project.org/package=yll>.



Detailed information and examples are contained in the package README file at https://github.com/AntoineSoetewey/yll/blob/master/README.md.



Issues and suggestions are welcome, and can be logged at the package Github repository https://github.com/AntoineSoetewey/yll/issues.

Best regards,
Antoine Soetewey

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