RRLI

Relative risk and its likelihood interval between two groups without stratification

Maximum likelihood estimation and likelihood ratio test are essential for modern statistics. This package supports in calculating likelihood based inference.
Reference: Pawitan Y. (2001, ISBN:0-19-850765-8).

Kyun-Seop Bae

Likelihood Based Inference

RRLI function

<dl> <dt>y1</dt>
<dd>positive event count of test (the first) group</dd> <dt>n1</dt>
<dd>total count of the test (the first) group. Maximum allowable value is 1e8.</dd> <dt>y2</dt>
<dd>positive event count of control (the second) group</dd> <dt>n2</dt>
<dd>total count of control (the second) group. Maximum allowable value is 1e8.</dd> <dt>conf.level</dt>
<dd>approximate confidence level to calculate k when k is missing.</dd> <dt>k</dt>
<dd>1/k likelihood interval will be provided</dd> <dt>eps</dt>
<dd>absolute value less than eps is regarded as negligible</dd></dl>

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Relative Risk and its Likelihood Interval between two groups without strata — RRLI

<dl>

 <dt>y1</dt>
<dd>positive event count of test (the first) group</dd>

 <dt>n1</dt>
<dd>total count of the test (the first) group. Maximum allowable value is 1e8.</dd>

 <dt>y2</dt>
<dd>positive event count of control (the second) group</dd>

 <dt>n2</dt>
<dd>total count of control (the second) group. Maximum allowable value is 1e8.</dd>

 <dt>conf.level</dt>
<dd>approximate confidence level to calculate k when k is missing.</dd>

 <dt>k</dt>
<dd>1/k likelihood interval will be provided</dd>

 <dt>eps</dt>
<dd>absolute value less than eps is regarded as negligible</dd>

</dl>

RRLI: Relative Risk and its Likelihood Interval between two groups without strata

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