To make analysis files nice to use, HPTEST lets you name a few things:

1. You can use -analysis-name to specify a name for your analysis. This is recorded in the metadata in the output file. In sqlite output format, this becomes a bit more useful: it gets recorded in the Analysis table, its start/end times in the AnalysisStatus table, and its command-line options in the AnalysisProperty table. This lets you keep track of multiple HPTEST runs output into the same sqlite output file.

2. Use -outcome-name to specify a name for the outcome variable. By default this is "outcome", but it's often nicer to get HPTEST to put its real name into the output file. For example, in our malaria study I used -outcome-name Pf; the output columns were named e.g. add:beta_1:add/Pf=1 instead of add:beta_1:add/outcome=1.

3. Models can be given names - e.g. instead of -model add you can write -model my_favourite:add. (This is admittedly mostly useful for the add+het model, which is set up as -model gen:add+het by default so that the output columns are called "gen".)