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BootComb-an R package to derive confidence intervals for combinations of independent parameter estimates
International Journal of Epidemiology ; 50(4):1071-1076, 2021.
Article in English | EMBASE | ID: covidwho-1735570
ABSTRACT
Motivation To address the limits of facility-or study-based estimates, multiple independent parameter estimates may need to be combined. Specific examples include (i) adjusting an incidence rate for healthcare utilisation, (ii) deriving a disease prevalence from a conditional prevalence and the prevalence of the underlying condition, (iii) adjusting a seroprevalence for test sensitivity and specificity. Calculating combined parameter estimates is generally straightforward, but deriving corresponding confidence intervals often is not. bootComb is an R package using parametric bootstrap sampling to derive such intervals. Implementation bootComb is a package for the statistical computation environment R. General features Apart from a function returning confidence intervals for parameters combined from several independent estimates, bootComb provides auxiliary functions for 6 common distributions (beta, normal, exponential, gamma, Poisson and negative binomial) to derive best-fit distributions for parameters given their reported confidence intervals.

Availability:

bootComb is available from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (https//CRAN.R-project.org/package=bootComb).
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: EMBASE Language: English Journal: International Journal of Epidemiology Year: 2021 Document Type: Article