betaControl {dsrTest}

Control Function for Beta Method for Confidence Intervals

Description

Modification to the Beta method. The options are "none" or the same modifications as applied to the Gamma Method (see gammaControl) are implemented. wmtype="none" and wmtype="tcz" have been investigated by Tiwari et al (2006) and Ng et al (2008).

Usage

betaControl(wmtype = c("none", "tcz", "max", "mean", "minmaxavg"), ...)

Arguments

wmtype

character type of modification to the Beta Confidence Interval

...

Currently ignored.

Value

a list with values

wmtype

modification to Beta Confidence Interval to implement

References

Tiwari RC, Clegg LX, & Zou Z (2006). 'Efficient interval estimation for age-adjusted cancer rates.' Statistical Methods in Medical Research 15: 547–569. doi:10.1177/0962280206070621

Ng HKT, Filardo, G & Zheng G (2008). 'Confidence interval estimating procedures for standardized incidence rates.' Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 52 3501–3516. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2007.11.004