pairwiseCImethodsProp: Confidence intervals for two sample comparisons of binomial...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value References See Also Examples

Description

For the comparison of two independent samples of binomial observations, confidence intervals for the difference (RD), ratio (RR) and odds ratio (OR) of proportions are implemented.

Usage

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Prop.diff(x, y, conf.level=0.95, alternative="two.sided",
 CImethod=c("NHS", "CC", "AC"), ...)

Prop.ratio(x, y, conf.level=0.95, alternative="two.sided",
 CImethod=c("Score", "MNScore", "MOVER", "GNC"))

Prop.or(x, y, conf.level=0.95, alternative="two.sided",
 CImethod=c("Exact", "Woolf"), ...)

Arguments

x

observations of the first sample: either a vector with number of successes and failures, or a data.frame with two columns (the successes and failures))

y

observations of the second sample: either a vector with number of successes and failures, or a data.frame with two columns (the successes and failures))

alternative

character string, either "two.sided", "less" or "greater"

conf.level

the comparisonwise confidence level of the intervals, where 0.95 is the default

CImethod

a single character string, see below for details

...

further arguments to be passed to the individual methods, see details

Details

Generally, the input are two vectors x and y giving the number of successes and failures in the two samples, or, alternatively, two data.frames x and y each containing one column for the successes and one column for the failures, and the rows containing repeated observations from the same treatment.

Please note, that the confidence intervals available in this function assume counts of successes and failures from a binomial distribution and thus do NOT APPROPRIATELY account for extra-binomial variability between repeated observations for the same treatment! When there are repeated observations (input as a data.frame with several rows), intervals are calculated based on the sums over the rows of success and failure!

The following methods are available for the risk difference:

For the risk ratio:

For the odds ratio:

Value

A list containing:

conf.int

a vector containing the lower and upper confidence limit, and the methods name as an attribute

estimate

a single named value

quantile

the quantile used for constructing the interval

conf.level

the confidence level

References

See Also

An alternative implementation of the Score interval for the risk ratio in package propCIs, function riskscoreci.

Examples

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# The rooting data.

data(rooting)

# the first comparison should be the same as:

Age5_PosB_IBA0 <- subset(rooting,
 Age=="5" & Position=="B" & IBA=="0")[,c("root", "noroot")]
Age5_PosB_IBA0.5 <- subset(rooting,
 Age=="5" & Position=="B" & IBA=="0.5")[,c("root", "noroot")]

Age5_PosB_IBA0
Age5_PosB_IBA0.5

Prop.diff(x=Age5_PosB_IBA0, y=Age5_PosB_IBA0.5)

Prop.ratio(x=Age5_PosB_IBA0, y=Age5_PosB_IBA0.5)

Prop.or(x=Age5_PosB_IBA0, y=Age5_PosB_IBA0.5)

# is the same as input two vectors x,y each containing
# the count of successes and the count of failures

 colSums(Age5_PosB_IBA0)
 colSums(Age5_PosB_IBA0.5)

Prop.diff(x=c(16,32),y=c(29,19))

Prop.ratio(x=c(16,32),y=c(29,19))

Prop.or(x=c(16,32),y=c(29,19))

# # # 

# Comparison with original publications:

# I. Risk difference:

# Continuity corrected interval:

# 1.Comparison with results presented in Newcombe (1998),
# Table II, page 877, 10. Score, CC
# column 1 (a): 56/70-48/80: [0.0441; 0.3559]

Prop.diff(x=c(56,70-56),y=c(48,80-48), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="CC")


# Risk difference, NHS
# Newcombes Hybrid Score interval:

# 1.Comparison with results presented in Newcombe (1998),
# Table II, page 877, 10. Score, noCC
# column 1 (a): 56/70-48/80: [0.0524; 0.3339]


Prop.diff(x=c(56,70-56),y=c(48,80-48), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="NHS")

Prop.diff(x=c(56,70-56),y=c(48,80-48), alternative="greater",
 conf.level=0.975, CImethod="NHS")

Prop.diff(x=c(56,70-56),y=c(48,80-48), alternative="less",
 conf.level=0.975, CImethod="NHS")


# 2.Comparison with results presented in Newcombe (1998),
# Table II, page 877, 10. Score, noCC
# column 2 (b): 9/10-3/10: [0.1705; 0.8090]

Prop.diff(x=c(9,1),y=c(3,7), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="NHS")


# 3.Comparison with results presented in Newcombe (1998),
# Table II, page 877, 10. Score, noCC
# column 2 (h): 10/10-0/10: [0.6075; 1.000]

Prop.diff(x=c(10,0),y=c(0,10), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="NHS")


# II. Risk ratio,
# Score interval according to Koopman(1984), Gart and Nam (1988)

# 1.Comparison with results presented in Gart and Nam (1998),
# Section 5 (page 327), Example 1
# x1/n1=8/15 x0/n0=4/15:
# Log: [0.768, 4.65]
# Score: [0.815; 5.34]

# Log (GNC)
Prop.ratio(x=c(8,7),y=c(4,11), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="GNC")

# Score (Score)
Prop.ratio(x=c(8,7),y=c(4,11), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="Score")

Prop.ratio(x=c(8,7),y=c(4,11), alternative="less",
 conf.level=0.975, CImethod="Score")

Prop.ratio(x=c(8,7),y=c(4,11), alternative="greater",
 conf.level=0.975, CImethod="Score")



# 2.Comparison with results presented in Gart and Nam (1998),
# Section 5 (page 328), Example 2
# x1/n1=6/10 x0/n0=6/20:
# Crude Log: [0.883, 4.32]
# Score: [0.844; 4.59]

Prop.ratio(x=c(6,4),y=c(6,14), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="GNC")

Prop.ratio(x=c(6,4),y=c(6,14), alternative="two.sided",
 conf.level=0.95, CImethod="Score")


# Koopman (1984), page 517
# x1=36, n1=40, x0=16, n0=80: [2.94, 7.15]

Prop.ratio(x=c(36, 4), y=c(16, 64), CImethod="Score")$conf.int 


# Miettinen, Nurminen (1985) p. 217 (Example 6): 
# x1=10, n1=10, x0=20, n0=20: [0.72, 1.20]

Prop.ratio(x=c(10, 0), y=c(20, 0), CImethod="MNScore")$conf.int


# MOVER-R Wilson in Newcombe and Fagerland, 2013, Table VIII:
#  x1=24, n1=73,x0=53, n0=65: [0.282, 0.563]
Prop.ratio(x=c(24, 49), y=c(53, 12), CImethod="MOVER")$conf.int 

#  x1=29, n1=55, x0=11, n0=11: [0.398, 0.761]
Prop.ratio(x=c(29, 26), y=c(11,0), CImethod="MOVER")$conf.int 

#  x1=7, n1=18, x0=1, n0=18: [(1.27, 40.8)]
Prop.ratio(x=c(7, 11), y=c(1, 17), CImethod="MOVER")$conf.int 


 

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