comorbidity

In medicine and clinical psychology, diagnoses tend to be categorical (someone is depressed or not, someone has an anxiety disorder or not). Cooccurrence of both of these symptoms is called comorbidity. Diagnostic categories vary in their degree of comorbidity with other diagnostic categories. From the point of view of correlation, comorbidity is just a name applied to one cell in a four fold table. It is thus possible to analyze comorbidity rates by considering the probability of the separate diagnoses and the probability of the joint diagnosis. This gives the two by two table needed for a phi, Yule, or tetrachoric correlation.

multivariate

A general purpose toolbox developed originally for personality, psychometric theory and experimental psychology. Functions are primarily for multivariate analysis and scale construction using factor analysis, principal component analysis, cluster analysis and reliability analysis, although others provide basic descriptive statistics. Item Response Theory is done using factor analysis of tetrachoric and polychoric correlations. Functions for analyzing data at multiple levels include within and between group statistics, including correlations and factor analysis. Validation and cross validation of scales developed using basic machine learning algorithms are provided, as are functions for simulating and testing particular item and test structures. Several functions serve as a useful front end for structural equation modeling. Graphical displays of path diagrams, including mediation models, factor analysis and structural equation models are created using basic graphics. Some of the functions are written to support a book on psychometric theory as well as publications in personality research. For more information, see the <https://personality-project.org/r/> web page.

William Revelle

psych

Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality
Research

comorbidity function

<dl> <dt>d1</dt>
<dd>Proportion of diagnostic category 1</dd> <dt>d2</dt>
<dd>Proportion of diganostic category 2</dd> <dt>com</dt>
<dd>Proportion of comorbidity (diagnostic category 1 and 2)</dd> <dt>labels</dt>
<dd>Names of categories 1 and 2</dd></dl>

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Convert base rates of two diagnoses and their comorbidity into phi, Yule, and tetrachorics — comorbidity

<dl>

 <dt>d1</dt>
<dd>Proportion of diagnostic category 1</dd>

 <dt>d2</dt>
<dd>Proportion of diganostic category 2</dd>

 <dt>com</dt>
<dd>Proportion of comorbidity (diagnostic category 1 and 2)</dd>

 <dt>labels</dt>
<dd>Names of categories 1 and 2</dd>

</dl>

comorbidity: Convert base rates of two diagnoses and their comorbidity into phi, Yule, and tetrachorics

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