Changes in version 0.1.0 (2026-04-21)                  

Initial CRAN submission

  - First release of dceasimR — the first comprehensive R package for
    Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA) on CRAN.

New functions

  - run_aggregate_dcea() — aggregate DCEA following Love-Koh et al.
    (2019)
  - run_full_dcea() — full-form DCEA with subgroup-specific parameters
  - calc_sii() / calc_rii() — Slope and Relative Index of Inequality
  - calc_concentration_index() — standard, Erreygers, and Wagstaff
    variants
  - calc_atkinson_index() — Atkinson inequality index
  - calc_gini() — Gini coefficient for health distributions
  - calc_all_inequality_indices() — calculate all indices in one call
  - calc_ede() / calc_ede_profile() — Equally Distributed Equivalent
    health
  - calc_social_welfare() — social welfare function analysis
  - calc_equity_weights() / calc_equity_weighted_nhb() — equity
    weighting
  - get_baseline_health() — preloaded baseline HALE data (England,
    Canada, WHO)
  - merge_cea_with_baseline() — merge CEA output with baseline
    distributions
  - plot_equity_impact_plane() — equity-efficiency impact plane
    visualisation
  - plot_lorenz_curve() — Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves
  - plot_ede_profile() — EDE profile across eta range
  - plot_inequality_staircase() — causal pathway staircase visualisation
  - run_dcea_sensitivity() — sensitivity analysis over key DCEA
    parameters
  - plot_dcea_tornado() — tornado diagram for sensitivity results
  - generate_nice_table() — NICE-formatted submission tables
  - export_dcea_excel() — Excel export in NICE submission format
  - generate_dcea_report() — full HTML/Word/PDF DCEA reports

Datasets

  - england_imd_hale — England HALE by IMD quintile (PHE/OHID)
  - england_imd_qol — EQ-5D utility norms by IMD and age band
  - canada_income_hale — Canada HALE by income quintile
  - who_regions_hale — WHO regional HALE data
  - example_cea_output — hypothetical CEA output for examples
  - nsclc_dcea_example — NSCLC worked example from literature