[R-sig-Epi] Epidemiology Task View

[Bernardo Rangel Tura]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 23:51 -0500, David Winsemius wrote:
> 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?

The roc curve have in two packages Epi and DiagnosisMed
> 
-- 
Bernardo Rangel Tura, M.D,MPH,Ph.D
National Institute of Cardiology
Brazil