ClinicalExperiment-class: Class "ClinicalExperiment"

Description Objects from the Class Slots Methods Author(s) See Also Examples

Description

A class to encapsulate a clinical experiment used in clinical trials

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("ClinicalExperiment", ...). The arguments include the number of factors in the experiment, the names of the factors, the number of levels of each factor, the number of treatments and the treatment names. Many, if not all, of the arguments are optional, in which case a two-treatment, two-factor experiment with two levels of each factor is assumed.

Slots

number.of.factors:

Object of class "integer" An integer specifying the number of factors, defaults to 2

factor.names:

Object of class "character" a character vector specifying the character names, defaults to F1 and F2

number.of.factor.levels:

Object of class "integer" A vector specifying the number of levels of each factor, defaults to c(2,2)

factor.level.names:

Object of class "list" a list of character vectors specifying the factor level names, defaults to 1, 2, etc.

number.of.treatments:

Object of class "integer" The number of treatments, defaults to 2

treatment.names:

Object of class "character" The names of the treatments; defaults to c("Tr1", "Tr2")

Methods

No methods defined with class "ClinicalExperiment" in the signature for now. These will be added in future versions.

Author(s)

Balasubramanian Narasimhan

See Also

ClinicalExperiment for a constructor function and PocockSimonRandomizer for an example of how this class is used.

Examples

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showClass("ClinicalExperiment")

##
## Construct a Clinical Experiment with 3 factors, with levels 2, 2, 3
## respectively, and three treatments with default names for all.
##
expt <- ClinicalExperiment(number.of.factors = 3,
                           number.of.factor.levels = c(2, 2, 3),
                           number.of.treatments = 3)

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