Create outcome definition

Create outcome definition

createOutcome(
  outcomeId,
  outcomeOfInterest = TRUE,
  trueEffectSize = NA,
  priorOutcomeLookback = NULL,
  riskWindowStart = NULL,
  startAnchor = NULL,
  riskWindowEnd = NULL,
  endAnchor = NULL
)

Arguments

outcomeId

An integer used to identify the outcome in the outcome cohort table.

outcomeOfInterest

Is this an outcome of interest? If not, creation of non-essential files will be skipped, including outcome=specific covariate balance files. This could be helpful to speed up analyses with many controls, for which we're only interested in the effect size estimate.

trueEffectSize

For negative and positive controls: the known true effect size. To be used for empirical calibration. Negative controls have trueEffectSize = 1. If the true effect size is unknown, use trueEffectSize = NA

priorOutcomeLookback

How many days should we look back when identifying prior. outcomes?

riskWindowStart

The start of the risk window (in days) relative to the startAnchor.

startAnchor

The anchor point for the start of the risk window. Can be "cohort start" or "cohort end".

riskWindowEnd

The end of the risk window (in days) relative to the endAnchor.

endAnchor

The anchor point for the end of the risk window. Can be "cohort start" or "cohort end".

Value

An object of type outcome, to be used in createTargetComparatorOutcomes().

Details

Any settings here that are not NULL will override any values set in createCreateStudyPopulationArgs().