a matrix of observations with one subject per row and one
rater per column.
conf.level
confidence level of the interval. The default
is 0.95.
method
a character string specifying the method used to
obtain confidence interval of the WSCV.
It must be one of "vst" and "delta" and may be abbreviated.
The default is "vst".
NAaction
a character string specifying what should happen
when the data contain NAs. It must be one of "fail"
and "omit" and may be abbreviated. The default is "fail" that causes
the function to print an error message and terminate if there are
any incomplete observations. If it is "omit", then the entire row(s)
containing incomplete observation(s) will be deleted.
Details
The point estimate is based on what proposed in Quan and Shih (1996).
To obtain confidence interval, the methods available include the delta
method proposed in Quan and Shih (1996) and the variance stabilizing
transformation in Shoukri et al. (2006).
Value
Point estimate of the WSCV and lower and upper bounds of the confidence
interval.
References
Hui Quan and Weichung J. Shih (1996)
Assessing reproducibility by the within-subject coefficient of
variation with random effects models.
Biometrics52 1195-1203
Mohamed M Shoukri, Nasser Elkum and Stephen D Walter (2006)
Interval estimation and optimal design for the within-subject
coefficient of variation for continuous and binary variables.
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