Distill Outcomes

distill takes a low-age resolution outcome, for example deaths, and proportionally distributes that outcome into a higher age resolution for use in subsequent analyses like years-life-lost style calculations.

Usage

distill(alembic_dt, outcomes_dt)

Arguments

alembic_dt

an alembic() return value

outcomes_dt

a long-format data.frame with a column either named from or model_from and a column value (other columns will be silently ignored)

Value

a data.frame, with new_from and recalculated value column

Details

When the value column is re-calculated, note that it will aggregate all matching from / model_from rows in outcomes_dt. If you need to group by other features in your input data (e.g. if you need to distill outcomes across multiple simulation outputs), that has to be done outside of any call to distill().