Type: Package
Package: ratesci
Title: Confidence Intervals and Tests for Comparisons of Binomial
        Proportions or Poisson Rates
Version: 1.1.0
Authors@R: 
    person("Pete", "Laud", , "pete@sheffstat.co.uk", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3766-7090"))
Description: Computes confidence intervals for binomial or Poisson rates
    and their differences or ratios. Including the rate (or risk)
    difference ('RD') or rate ratio (or relative risk, 'RR') for binomial
    proportions or Poisson rates, and odds ratio ('OR', binomial only).
    Also confidence intervals for RD, RR or OR for paired binomial data,
    and estimation of a proportion from clustered binomial data.  Includes
    skewness-corrected asymptotic score ('SCAS') methods, which have been
    developed in Laud (2017) <doi:10.1002/pst.1813> from Miettinen and
    Nurminen (1985) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780040211> and Gart and Nam (1988)
    <doi:10.2307/2531848>, and in Laud (2026, under review) for paired
    proportions. In each case, the same score produces hypothesis tests that are
    improved versions of the non-inferiority test for binomial RD and RR
    by Farrington and Manning (1990) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780091208>, or a
    generalisation of the McNemar test for paired data. The package also
    includes MOVER methods (Method Of Variance Estimates Recovery) for all
    contrasts, derived from the Newcombe method but with options to use
    equal-tailed intervals in place of the Wilson score method, and
    generalised for Bayesian applications incorporating prior information.
    So-called 'exact' methods for strictly conservative coverage are
    approximated using continuity adjustments, and the amount of
    adjustment can be selected to avoid over-conservative coverage.  Also
    includes methods for stratified calculations (e.g. meta-analysis),
    either with fixed effect assumption (matching the CMH test) or
    incorporating stratum heterogeneity.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/petelaud/ratesci,
        https://petelaud.github.io/ratesci/
BugReports: https://github.com/petelaud/ratesci/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.6.0)
Suggests: knitr, lifecycle, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-28 21:01:18 UTC; pjlau
Author: Pete Laud [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3766-7090>)
Maintainer: Pete Laud <pete@sheffstat.co.uk>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-02 21:30:02 UTC
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