Software Development
Our research team has developed a suite of R packages and tools to support advanced, accessible statistical analysis for health and demographic research. While the SAE4Health platform is centered on the sae4health
R Shiny app and built primarily on methods from the surveyPrev
package, it is part of a broader software framework developed to meet the needs of both technical and applied audiences.
- We have been working on
SUMMER
package since 2017 – focuses mostly on mortality estimation. surveyPrev
(Richard, Qianyu, Yunhan, Andrea, Jon) is on CRAN and allows SAE for binary indicators.- Experience from UN and WHO workshops in Ecuador, South Africa, Malawi, and Rwanda is that researchers need a more user-friendly interface – to this end, the
sae4health
R Shiny app has been developed by Yunhan and was premiered in a WHO workshop in Rwanda June 2024. - U5MR is hard because the data model is complex – can be done in
SUMMER
. - With Ben Mayala, Yunhan, Richard, Jon, and others, created a pipeline for U5MR using DHS data and
SUMMER
. - R
survey
package now has a generic SAE module thanks to Peter Gao and others.