Technical Outputs

Software, model documentation, and reproducible research archives.

πŸ› οΈ Active Software & R Packages

Our open-source codebase is the core of the STAPM platform. These packages are actively maintained, version-controlled, and assigned DOIs for academic citation.

smktrans

Estimating smoking state transition probabilities A tool for estimating transition probabilities from cross-sectional survey data. The documentation site includes reports that allow you to browse and download the estimates.

Visit Package Website DOI

hseclean

Health Survey for England Wrangling Automated data cleaning and processing pipeline for the Health Survey for England. Standardizes variable names and categories across survey years.

Visit Package Website DOI

tobalcepi

Epidemiological Calculation Engine Functions for computing Relative Risks (RR) and Population Attributable Fractions (PAF) for tobacco and alcohol-related harms.

Visit Package Website DOI

mort.tools

Mortality Data Processing Tools for processing mortality microdata from England, Wales, and Scotland. Currently hosted as an OSF archive.

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πŸ“‚ Publication Code Archive

To ensure the reproducibility of our research, we maintain a dedicated repository for code snapshots linked to specific peer-reviewed publications.

NoteSTAPM Open Access Code Organization (GitHub)

This GitHub organisation stores the development code for our R packages and archived versions of the code used to generate results for our published papers. These repositories act as β€œfrozen” snapshots of the models at the time of publication, providing a transparent record for peer review and further research.

πŸ“– Model Documentation (Technical Reports)

Detailed descriptions of the design, validation, and internal mechanisms of the STAPM engines.

Core Simulation Engines

STPM

The Sheffield Tobacco Policy Model Full technical documentation of the design and longitudinal transitions.
Read Report β†’

SAPM-R

The Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model (R version) Details on the new R-coded version of the alcohol simulation engine.
Read Report β†’

TAX-sim

Tobacco & Alcohol Tax Simulation Technical documentation for the joint fiscal appraisal model.
Read Report β†’

Strategic Policy Applications

Hospital-TTD-Mod

Tobacco Dependence Treatment in Secondary Care Developed to estimate the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of embedding tobacco dependence treatment within hospital settings.
[Technical Report In Development]

CDOHIO

Commercial Determinants of Health Estimating the macro-economic impacts of reductions in consumption of tobacco, alcohol, gambling, and confectionery. Read the methodology paper here.
[Technical Report In Development]

SAPM-NoLo

Non- & Low-Alcohol Modelling Simulating substitution dynamics between standard and NoLo products within the SAPM-R framework.
[Technical Report In Development]

πŸ“Ž Supplementary Material Locker

Direct access to the technical appendices, sensitivity analyses, and model specifications for our high-impact papers.

For further technical reports, visit the SARG Technical Reports Library.

πŸ“Š Intermediate Estimates & Data

Foundational data and parameters intended for researchers developing their own health economic models.

  • Smoking Transition Probabilities: Estimated from longitudinal survey data. [Access Data Repository]
  • Tobacco & Alcohol Attributable Fractions: Estimates for Scotland and England by disease category. Access Scotland DOI

πŸ“‘ All Publications

For a comprehensive list of peer-reviewed research, impact stories, and blog posts, please visit the central SARG Publications Page.

πŸš€ Future Outputs

We are currently developing interactive Shiny web-apps to allow users to browse simulation results dynamically. Check back for updates.