make_n_cutoffs {afdx}

Make a defined number of categories having similar number of positives in each category

Description

Generate the categories in a way that each category have at least the mintot number of observation. It generate all possible categories were there is change and then collapse to have minimum number of observations in each category

Usage

make_n_cutoffs(v.fever, v.density, mintot, add1 = TRUE)

Arguments

v.fever

numeric vector of 0/1 indicating fever or equivalent

v.density

numeric vector of values >= 0 indicating the density

mintot

minimum number of observations per category

add1

a logical value to indicate the category started with 1 is included

Value

a vector with the cutoff points

Examples

{
make_n_cutoffs(malaria_df1$fever, malaria_df1$density, mintot=50)
}