Confidence interval for Poisson counts.
Computes a confidence interval for the Poisson counts.
poiCI( x, conf.level = 0.95, type = c("exact", "daly", "byar", "asymptotic"), verbose = FALSE )
x |
A single number or vector that represents the number of observed successes. |
conf.level |
A number that indicates the level of confidence to use for constructing confidence intervals (default is |
type |
A string that identifies the type of method to use for the calculations. See details. |
verbose |
A logical that indicates whether |
Computes a CI for the Poisson counts using the exact
, gamma distribution (daly
‘), Byar’s (byar
), or normal approximation (asymptotic
) methods.
The pois.daly
function gives essentially identical answers to the pois.exact
function except when x=0. When x=0, for the upper confidence limit pois.exact
returns 3.689 and pois.daly
returns 2.996.
A #x2 matrix that contains the lower and upper confidence interval bounds as columns and, if verbose=TRUE
x
.
Derek H. Ogle, derek@derekogle.com, though this is largely based on pois.exact
, pois.daly
, pois.byar
, and pois.approx
from the old epitools package.
## Demonstrates using all types at once poiCI(12) ## Selecting types poiCI(12,type="daly") poiCI(12,type="byar") poiCI(12,type="asymptotic") poiCI(12,type="asymptotic",verbose=TRUE) poiCI(12,type=c("exact","daly")) poiCI(12,type=c("exact","daly"),verbose=TRUE) ## Demonstrates use with multiple inputs poiCI(c(7,10),type="exact") poiCI(c(7,10),type="exact",verbose=TRUE)
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