ORCI (version 1.1)

MUE.CI: Compute MUE confidence interval for the odds ratio

Description

Compute median unbiased estimator (MUE) based confidence interval for the odds ratio of two independent binomial proportions.

Usage

MUE.CI(x1, n1, x2, n2, conf = 0.95)

Arguments

x1

number of events in group 1.

n1

number of trials in group 1.

x2

number of events in group 2.

n2

number of trials in group 2.

conf

confidence level.

References

Parzen, M., Lipsitz, S., Ibrahim, J., and Klar, N. (2002). An estimate of the odds ratio that always exists. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 11(2):430-436.

Examples

# x1=2, n1=14, x2=1, n2=11
# 95% confidence interval for the odds ratio 

MUE.CI(2, 14, 1, 11)