binMtoMethods: CI for difference of two proportions based on standard normal...

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also

Description

For internal use.

Usage

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Add4(nx, ny, X, Y, quantile, alternative)
Add2(nx, ny, X, Y, quantile, alternative)
NHS(nx, ny, X, Y, quantile, alternative)
Wald(nx, ny, X, Y, quantile, alternative)

Arguments

nx

a single numeric value, number of trials in sample x

ny

a single numeric value, number of trials in sample y

X

a single numeric value, number of successes in sample x

Y

a single numeric value, number of successes in sample y

quantile

e.g. qnorm(p=0.975) for a two-sided 95 percent confidence interval

alternative

a character string, one of "two.sided", "less", "greater"

Value

A list containing

conf.int

vector giving lower and upper bound

estimate

estimated difference px-py

Author(s)

Frank Schaarschmidt

References

Schaarschmidt, F., Biesheuvel, E., Hothorn, L.A. (2009): Asymptotic simultaneous confidence intervals for many-to-one comparisons of binary proportions in randomized clinical trials, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics 19(2):292-310.

Agresti, A. and Caffo, B. (2000): Simple and effective confidence intervals for proportions and differences of proportions result from adding two successes and two failures. American Statistician 54 (4), 280-288.

Brown, L. and Li, X. (2005): Confidence intervals for two sample binomial distribution. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 130, 359-375.

Newcombe, R.G. (1998): Interval estimation for the difference between independent proportions: comparison of eleven methods. Statistics in Medicine 17, 873-890.

See Also

pairwise.prop.test


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