Michael Dewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Subject: [R] Confidence interval for relative risk
The concrete problem is that I am refereeing
a paper where a confidence interval is
presented for the risk ratio and I do not find
it credible. I show below my attempts to
do this in R. The example
, 2006 15:43
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Confidence interval for relative risk
The concrete problem is that I am refereeing
a paper where a confidence interval is
presented for the risk ratio and I do not find
it credible. I show below my attempts to
do this in R
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Subject: [R] Confidence interval for relative risk
The concrete problem is that I am refereeing
At 12:35 12/11/2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Michael Dewey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 15:54 10/11/2006, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion Wolfgang, but whatever the original authors
did that is not it.
Did you ever say what result they got?
-p
No,
When I have refereed manuscripts for publication and have been
unable to get their answers, I have told the authors they need more
explanation of their methodology -- while summarizing what I tried in a
few lines. I've even told some that it would make it vastly easier for
the referees
The concrete problem is that I am refereeing
a paper where a confidence interval is
presented for the risk ratio and I do not find
it credible. I show below my attempts to
do this in R. The example is slightly changed
from the authors'.
I can obtain a confidence interval for
the odds ratio from
