confIntOddsRatio: Confidence interval for an odds ratio

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Confidence interval for an odds ratio

Description

Confidence interval for an odds ratio. The method is based on the Wald interval for the log odds ratio.

Usage

confIntOddsRatio(x, n, conf.level = 0.95)

Arguments

x	Vector of length 2, number of successes in each group.
n	Vector of length 2, total number of trials in each group.
conf.level	Confidence level for confidence interval. Default value is 0.95.

Value

A vector containing the odds ratio and the limits of the confidence interval.

Author(s)

Leonhard Held

References

DG Altman, D Machin, TN Bryant, MJ Gardner. Statistics with confidence, 2nd Edition, 2000, Chapter 7

See Also

confIntDiagnostic, confIntRiskRatio, confIntRiskDiff.

Examples

x <- c(30, 50)
n <- c(100, 120)
confIntOddsRatio(x = x, n = n)

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