mergeAnalytes

The feature can either be the pathological fraction, the sample size or the overlap (category) individually or cumulative (_cum). 
For a individualized categorisation see <code>getSubsetForDefinedCats</code>.

The provided benchmark suite enables the automated evaluation and comparison of any existing and novel indirect method for reference interval ('RI') estimation in a systematic way.
Indirect methods take routine measurements of diagnostic tests, containing pathological and non-pathological samples as input and use sophisticated
statistical methods to derive a model describing the distribution of the non-pathological samples, which can then be
used to derive reference intervals. The benchmark suite contains 5,760 simulated test sets with varying difficulty.
To include any indirect method, a custom wrapper function needs to be provided.
The package offers functions for generating the test sets, executing the indirect method and evaluating the results.
See ?RIbench or vignette("RIbench_package") for a more comprehensive description of the features.
A detailed description and application is described in Ammer T., Schuetzenmeister A., Prokosch H.-U., Zierk J., Rank C.M., Rauh M. "RIbench: A Proposed Benchmark for the Standardized Evaluation of Indirect Methods for Reference Interval Estimation". Clinical Chemistry (2022) <doi:10.1093/clinchem/hvac142>.

Tatjana Ammer

RIbench

Benchmark Suite for Indirect Methods for RI Estimation

Christopher Rank

Andre Schuetzenmeister

mergeAnalytes function

<dl><dt>tableTCs</dt>
<dd>(data.frame) containing all information about the simulated test sets</dd>
<dt>errorList</dt>
<dd>(list) containing for each method the table with the computed error measurements</dd>
<dt>catList</dt>
<dd>(list) containing the categories to split the dataset</dd>
<dt>catLabels</dt>
<dd>(list) containing the labels that will be used for the categories</dd>
<dt>distTypes</dt>
<dd>(logical) indicating if 'catList' refers to analytes (FALSE, default) or distribution types (TRUE)</dd></dl>

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Function to combine analytes for defined categories — mergeAnalytes

<dl>

<dt>tableTCs</dt>
<dd>(data.frame) containing all information about the simulated test sets</dd>


<dt>errorList</dt>
<dd>(list) containing for each method the table with the computed error measurements</dd>


<dt>catList</dt>
<dd>(list) containing the categories to split the dataset</dd>


<dt>catLabels</dt>
<dd>(list) containing the labels that will be used for the categories</dd>


<dt>distTypes</dt>
<dd>(logical) indicating if 'catList' refers to analytes (FALSE, default) or distribution types (TRUE)</dd>

</dl>

Tatjana Ammer <a href='mailto:tatjana.ammer@roche.com'>tatjana.ammer@roche.com</a>

mergeAnalytes: Function to combine analytes for defined categories

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