NNTbiomarker-package: Plan a biomarker validation study by focusing on desired...
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Clarifying what performance would suffice if the test is to improve medical care makes it possible to design meaningful validation studies.
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Package: NNTbiomarker
Type: Package
Version: 0.1
Date: 2015-03-21
License: What license is it under?
This package bases the design of a biomarker study on the idea of "number needed to treat" (NNT). It postulates a "range of discomfort" for NNT, within which the clinical decision is uncomfortable for a treating physician. provides a shiny window for eliciting the boundaries of the range of number needed to
Author(s)
Roger Day
Maintainer: Roger Day <day01@pitt.edu>
References
See author for unpublished manuscript.
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NNT.to.pv(NNTpos=5, NNTneg=28)
NNT.from.sesp(se=0.7, sp=0.9, prev=0.1)
pv.to.sesp(pv = cbind(ppv=seq(.5, .9, .1), npv=0.9), prev = 0.2)
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Description Details Author(s) References Examples
Description
Clarifying what performance would suffice if the test is to improve medical care makes it possible to design meaningful validation studies.
Details
| Package: | NNTbiomarker |
| Type: | Package |
| Version: | 0.1 |
| Date: | 2015-03-21 |
| License: | What license is it under? |
This package bases the design of a biomarker study on the idea of "number needed to treat" (NNT). It postulates a "range of discomfort" for NNT, within which the clinical decision is uncomfortable for a treating physician. provides a shiny window for eliciting the boundaries of the range of number needed to
Author(s)
Roger Day
Maintainer: Roger Day <day01@pitt.edu>
References
See author for unpublished manuscript.
Examples
1 2 3 | NNT.to.pv(NNTpos=5, NNTneg=28)
NNT.from.sesp(se=0.7, sp=0.9, prev=0.1)
pv.to.sesp(pv = cbind(ppv=seq(.5, .9, .1), npv=0.9), prev = 0.2)
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