Chapter 6 Key Concepts

This section explains some key concepts in Project Big Life’s Planning Tool. This section will explain how it works rather then how to do things.

• Data and sample files

• Multivariable predictive risk algorithms

• Calculations: general

  • Summary vs. By Row
  • Weighted vs. unweighted

• Calculations: specific health outcomes

  • Risk of health outcome
  • Number of health outcomes
  • Life expectancy

• Scenario: Intervention

• Scenario: Health behaviour attribution

• Results

  • Why are there more deaths for the healthy behaviour?

• Assumptions and limitations