Costs object
An object of class costs returned from methods $sim_costs() in model classes that store simulated costs.
Components
A costs object inherits from data.table and contains the following columns:
- sample: A random sample from the PSA.
- strategy_id: The treatment strategy ID.
- patient_id: The patient ID.
- grp_id: The subgroup ID.
- state_id: The health state ID.
- dr: The rate used to discount costs.
- category: The cost category (e.g., drug costs, medical costs, etc).
- costs: The simulated cost values.