Re: [R] How would you program an Adverse Events statistical table using R code?

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Harrell
As Ista and Rich have implied, graphics are better than tables for AEs. Also, statistical tests are not always of value here. For more, see http://www.ctspedia.org/do/view/CTSpedia/StatGraphHome and p. 47-53 of http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/graphscourse.pdf. p.

Re: [R] How would you program an Adverse Events statistical table using R code?

2012-02-25 Thread Ista Zahn
Hi Robert, I think you might find it helpful to start with http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf Best, Ista On Friday, February 24, 2012 07:13:10 PM Robert Wilkins wrote: > A graph != A table. > I'm talking about a page full of summary statistics and advanced > s

Re: [R] How would you program an Adverse Events statistical table using R code?

2012-02-25 Thread Richard M. Heiberger
Robert, Plase look at the ae.dotplot function in the HH package. AE (Adverse Events) dotplot of incidence and relative risk ## install.packages("HH") ## if necessary library(HH) ?ae.dotplot In addition to command line access to the function, we have direct access using RExcel from an Excel work

[R] How would you program an Adverse Events statistical table using R code?

2012-02-24 Thread Robert Wilkins
A graph != A table. I'm talking about a page full of summary statistics and advanced statistics, with lots of cross categories on the top and left margin of the table, as opposed to a visual display with x-axis and y-axis, which is totally different. (An example of how this is done in another lang