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Re: tools for epidemiologists in s-plus

To: Pedram Sendi <psendi@swissonline.ch>
Subject: Re: tools for epidemiologists in s-plus
From: Frank E Harrell Jr <fharrell@virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:07:14 -0500
Cc: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
In-reply-to: <3C7BBD5E.DF38A853@swissonline.ch>
Organization: University of Virginia
References: <3C7BBD5E.DF38A853@swissonline.ch>
The Hosmer-Lemeshow test has limited power and is dependent on choice of 
cutpoints in predicted probabilities.  A newer test by Hosmer et al that is 
better in most ways may be obtained using the Design library's lrm and 
resid.lrm functions.  -Frank Harrell

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:52:46 +0100
Pedram Sendi <psendi@swissonline.ch> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am considering S-Plus for some epidemiological work. I was looking for
> functions to estimate incidence rate ratios, risk ratios, risk
> difference, attributable fraction, and the respective confidence
> intervals. And functions to standardize rates (direct and indirect).
> Also, is the Hosmer-Lemeshow test in logistic regression available in
> S-Plus ? (I could not find it)
> 
> Many thanks for any hints,
> Pedram
> 
> 
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Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat

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