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referenceIntervals (version 1.3.0)

Reference Intervals

Description

This is a collection of tools to allow the medical professional to calculate appropriate reference ranges (intervals) with confidence intervals around the limits for diagnostic purposes.

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install.packages('referenceIntervals')

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Version

1.3.0

License

GPL-3

Maintainer

Daniel Finnegan

Last Published

April 28th, 2022

Functions in referenceIntervals (1.3.0)

set50

Dataset containing 50 values

vanderLoo.outliers

Mark van der Loo's outlier detection method in the extremevalues package

print.interval.sub

Overload of print in order to concisely print the results of refLimit

set20

Small dataset containing 20 samples

set200

Dataset containing 200 values

set120

Dataset containing 120 values

robust

Algorithm that implements the robust method for reference interval calculations

singleRefLimit

This is the workhorse of the refLimit function

horn.outliers

Determines outliers using Horn's method and Tukey's interquartile fences on a Box-Cox transformation of the data.

nonparRanks

Table that dictate the ranks for the confidence intervals around the calculated reference interval.

plot.interval

Overload of plot function to include the ability to plot the results of refLimit

dixon.outliers

Determines outliers using Dixon's Q Test method

cook.outliers

Determines outliers using Cook's Distance

nonparRI

Determines the reference interval using non-parametric means

refLimit

Calculates and returns reference and confidence intervals for a dataset

print.interval

Overload of print in order to concisely print the results of refLimit

referenceIntervals-package

This package calculates reference intervals from a dataset using either parametric, non-parametric, or robust methods.