ratesci-package: ratesci: A package for computing confidence intervals for various
Description
Computes confidence intervals for the rate difference (RD), rate ratio (RR),
or odds ratio (OR), for independent binomial or Poisson rates. Includes
score-based methods with (or without) skewness correction, developed from the
Miettinen-Nurminen and Gart-Nam methods, and the "Method of Variance
Estimates Recovery", originating from Newcombe.ratesci functions
- scoreci: for score-based confidence intervals
- scasci: wrapper function to compute SCAS interval
- tdasci: wrapper function to compute TDAS stratified
interval
- moverci: for the MOVER method
- moverbci: wrapper function to compute MOVER-B interval
- jeffreysci: wrapper function to compute Jeffreys interval for a
single rate
References
Laud PJ. Equal-tailed confidence intervals for comparison of
rates. Pharmaceutical Statistics [in press]. Miettinen OS, Nurminen M. Comparative analysis of two rates. Statistics in
Medicine 1985; 4:213-226. Gart JJ, Nam JM. Approximate interval estimation of the ratio of binomial
parameters: A review and corrections for skewness. Biometrics 1988;
44(2):323-338. Gart JJ, Nam JM. Approximate interval estimation of the difference in
binomial parameters: correction for skewness and extension to multiple
tables. Biometrics 1990; 46(3):637-643. Newcombe RG. Interval estimation for the difference between independent
proportions: comparison of eleven methods. Statistics in Medicine 1998;
17(8):873-890. Donner A, Zou G. Closed-form confidence intervals for functions of the
normal mean and standard deviation. Statistical Methods in Medical Research
2012; 21(4):347-359.