[R-sig-Epi] Epidemiology Task View

[David Winsemius]

Dear EpidemiRogists;

" ... this I now have the following categories with suggested  
packages...

Case-Control : Epi, epiR epibasic, epicalc, epitools
Cohort : Epi epiR, epibasic epicalc epitools
Incidence/Mortality :
Demography : demogR   "


I notice that there were no suggested entries for Incidence/Mortality.  
I would have thought that glm (for Poisson regression), survival, and  
Harrell's Design/Hmisc packages would fit there, although I also saw  
that there are also plans for a cross-reference to the Survival Task  
View. I do not see a problem in having some overlap with other Task  
Views at least in "obvious" slots.

I have also notice that analysis of ROC curves comes up in r-help  
fairly commonly. I am not a big fan of these and do not have any  
recommendations to propose as a result, but maybe some notice of the  
potential problems could surround references to packages that offer  
that desired facility?

-- 
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Labs