RDinv: Risk Difference between two groups with strata by inverse...

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Risk Difference between two groups with strata by inverse variance method

Description

Risk difference and its score confidence interval between two groups with stratification by inverse variance method

Usage

  RDinv(d0, conf.level=0.95)

Arguments

d0	A data.frame or matrix, of which each row means a stratum. This should have four columns named y1, n1, y2, and n2; y1 and y2 for events of each group, n1 and n2 for the sample size of each stratum. The second group is usually the control group.
conf.level	confidence level

Details

It calculates risk difference and its confidence interval between two groups by inverse variance method. If you need percent scale, multiply the output by 100. This supports stratification. This can be used for meta-analysis also.

Value

The following output will be returned for each stratum and common value. There is no standard error.

p1	proportion from the first group, y1/n1
p2	proportion from the second group, y2/n2
RD	risk difference, p1 - p2. The point estimate of common RD is calculated with MH weight.
lower	lower confidence limit of RD
upper	upper confidence limit of RD

Author(s)

Kyun-Seop Bae [e-mail]

See Also

RDmn1, RRmn1, ORmn1, RDmn, RRmn, ORmn, RRinv, ORinv, ORcmh

Examples

  d1 = matrix(c(25, 339, 28, 335, 23, 370, 40, 364), nrow=2, byrow=TRUE)
  colnames(d1) =  c("y1", "n1", "y2", "n2")
  RDinv(d1)

sasLM documentation built on Oct. 2, 2024, 9:06 a.m.