[R-sig-Epi] Epidemiology Task View?

[BXC (Bendix Carstensen)]

Neil,
this would be a very welcome initiative.

You could argue that most of the survival stuff belongs here too, but a link to the Task View for survival would suffice.

Additional topics:

Multistate models  (the msm package; the MSsim function in Epi)
Demography (demogR package)

Once you have made a skelton I suggest you post it to this list (and the epitoolds list) and I am sure there will be a couple of people chipping in.

Bendix
maitainer of Epi package
list maintainer, Epi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-epi-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-sig-epi-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Neil Shephard
> Sent: 19. november 2008 16:05
> To: r-sig-epi at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R-sig-Epi] Epidemiology Task View?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone would find having a Task View (see 
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ ) for Epidemiology 
> desireable or useful?
> 
> I currently co-maintain the Genetics Task View and would be 
> happy to have a go at writing one for Epidemiology having 
> recently shifted the focus of my employment away from Genetic 
> Epidemiology to more "standard" epidemiological work.
> 
> The following packages are ones that I've identified from the 
> packages list...
> 
> Epi
> epiR
> epibasic
> epicalc
> epitools
> 
> Other related packages
> bayesSurv  (for survival analysis)
> CPE (for survival analysis)
> 
> and I'd probably aim to classify into sub-sections...
> 
> Case-Control
> Cohort
> Incidence/Mortality
> Survival
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any thoughts/input on this as to
> 
> a) Packages to include
> b) Suggested sub-categories
> 
> Regards
> 
> Neil
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