This is a Python package to support analysts in the execution of statistical methods approved for use in the production of Public Health indicators such as those presented via Fingertips. It provides functions for the generation of Proportions, Rates, DSRs, ISRs, Funnel plots and Means including confidence intervals for these statistics, and a function for assigning data to quantiles.
Full documenation on the package can be found on readthedocs.
Any feedback would be appreciated and can be provided using the Issues section of the PHStatsMethods GitHub repository.
This packaged should be installed using pip:
pip install PHStatsMethods
Or it can be compiled from source (still requires pip):
pip install git+https://github.com/dhsc-govuk/PHStatsMethods.git
PH_statistical_methods should be imported and used in line with standard python conventions. It is suggested that if the whole package is to be imported then the following convention is used:
import PHStatsMethods
For more information on any function, you can use:
help(PHStatsMethods.function)
This package has been QA'd and further development is planned and documented in the issues.
This project is released under the GPL-3 licence.