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InferenceSMR (version 1.0.2)

Inference About the Standardized Mortality Ratio when Evaluating the Effect of a Screening Program on Survival

Description

Functions to make inference about the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) when evaluating the effect of a screening program. The package is based on methods described in Sasieni (2003) and Talbot et al. (2011) .

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install.packages('InferenceSMR')

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235

Version

1.0.2

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Denis Talbot

Last Published

December 3rd, 2023

Functions in InferenceSMR (1.0.2)

incidences

Incidences calculations.
h

h function as defined by Lin et al. (1994).
contrib

Weights calculation
covariance

Covariance between two survival probability estimates.
inference.SMR

Inference about the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) when evaltuating the effect of a screening program on survival.
req.objects

Required objects to run some examples
est.expDeath

Estimation of the expected number of deaths.
function1

Internal function for function var.expDeath
screening

A population of size 10,000 for a screening program
var.expDeath

Variance estimation of the expected number of deaths