ici.rr: 95% Intrinsic confidence intervals for Rate Ratios (RR) in...

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

Description

Calculates 95% traditional confidence limits and 95% intrinsic confidence intervals for rate ratio from epidemiological studies.

Usage

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ici.rr(cases, patients, person_yrs)

Arguments

cases

The number of individuals affected by the condition

patients

The total number of individuals in the study

person_yrs

The amount of time the patients were followed during the study

Value

RR : MLE estimate of the rates ratio

llci : Lower 95% traditional confidence limit

ulci : Upper 95% traditional confidence limit

llici : Lower 95% intrinsic confidence limit

ulici : Upper 95% intrinsic confidence limit

References

Dormuth, Colin R., Kristian B. Filion, and Robert W. Platt. "Likelihood ratio meta-analysis: New motivation and approach for an old method." Contemporary clinical trials 47 (2016): 259-265.

Examples

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## Not run: 
# Clopidogrel vs Aspirin trial dataset
cases<-c(939,1021)
person_yrs<-c(17636,17519)
patients<-c(9599,9586)
ici.rr(cases, patients, person_yrs)

## End(Not run)

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