writeResFile

Helper function to write result file when time out occured or R session terminated

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

writeResFile function

<dl><dt>algoName</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the name of the algorithm that is evaluated</dd>
<dt>biomarker</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the biomarker for which the algorithm should calculate RIs</dd>
<dt>N</dt>
<dd>(numeric) specifying the number of input data points</dd>
<dt>error</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the type of error (e.g. timeout, RSessionTerminated)</dd>
<dt>runtime</dt>
<dd>(numeric) specifying the computation time up until the error occured</dd>
<dt>filename</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the filename for which the algorithm failed</dd>
<dt>outputDir</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the outputDir: Data files should be stored in outputDir/Data/biomarker and Results will be stored in outputDir/Results/algo/biomarker</dd></dl>

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Helper function to write result file when time out occured or R session terminated — writeResFile

<dl>

<dt>algoName</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the name of the algorithm that is evaluated</dd>


<dt>biomarker</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the biomarker for which the algorithm should calculate RIs</dd>


<dt>N</dt>
<dd>(numeric) specifying the number of input data points</dd>


<dt>error</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the type of error (e.g. timeout, RSessionTerminated)</dd>


<dt>runtime</dt>
<dd>(numeric) specifying the computation time up until the error occured</dd>


<dt>filename</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the filename for which the algorithm failed</dd>


<dt>outputDir</dt>
<dd>(character) specifying the outputDir: Data files should be stored in outputDir/Data/biomarker and Results will be stored in outputDir/Results/algo/biomarker</dd>

</dl>

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

writeResFile: Helper function to write result file when time out occured or R session terminated

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