# -------------------------------------------- # CITATION file created with {cffr} R package # See also: https://docs.ropensci.org/cffr/ # -------------------------------------------- cff-version: 1.2.0 message: 'To cite package "nhscancerwaits" in publications use:' type: software license: MIT title: 'nhscancerwaits: NHS Cancer Waiting-Time Analysis, Benchmarking and Multilevel Modelling' version: 1.0.2 abstract: Provides tools for importing, harmonising, cleaning, analysing, benchmarking and visualising National Health Service (NHS) England Cancer Waiting Times data. The package supports national performance monitoring, provider-level benchmarking and cancer pathway comparisons through key performance indicator summaries, provider filtering, clustering analyses, mixed-effects regression models, variance decomposition, intraclass correlation coefficient estimation, adjusted provider performance estimation and sensitivity analyses. Functions are included for exploratory analysis, publication-ready visualisations and spreadsheet exports, supporting reproducible health services research, cancer services evaluation, quality improvement and assessment of waiting-time performance across healthcare organisations. Mixed-effects modelling functionality is based on Bates et al. (2015) . Multilevel modelling concepts and variance decomposition follow Gelman and Hill (2007, ISBN:9780521686891). Cancer Waiting Times definitions and reporting standards follow NHS England . authors: - family-names: Zahir Khan given-names: Muhammad email: zahirstat007@gmail.com orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7645-8960 repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev repository-code: https://github.com/zerish12/nhscancerwaits commit: 77e0eb9da46334018e20ca100277afbddf7cdb50 url: https://github.com/zerish12/nhscancerwaits date-released: '2026-06-19' contact: - family-names: Zahir Khan given-names: Muhammad email: zahirstat007@gmail.com orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7645-8960