PoDBAY1.4.3 package

Vaccine Efficacy Estimation Package

assignPoD

Assign probability of disease (PoD)

BlindSampling

Immunogenicity subset: vaccinated, control, non-diseased

ClinicalTrial

Clinical trial: estimation of case-count efficacy

ClinicalTrialCoverage

Clinical trial function expanded for usage in simulations when the cal...

cppMLE

Maximum likelihood estimation: cpp

cppPoD

Probability of disease calculation

EfficacyCI

PoDBAY efficacy summary: mean, median, confidence intervals

EfficacyCICoverage

PoDBAY efficacy summary at three confidence levels

efficacyComputation

PoDBAY efficacy equation

efficacySquaredError

Optimization objective function: efficacy squared error

ExpectedPoD

Expected probability of disease

ExtractDiseased

Diseased subjects extraction

ExtractNondiseased

Non-diseased subjects extraction

fitPoD

PoD curve: fitting function

GenerateNondiseased

Generation of upsampled non-diseased subjects titers

generatePopulation

Population class object generation

getDiseasedCount

Diseased count

getDiseasedTiters

Diseased titers

getNondiseasedCount

Non-diseased count

getNondiseasedTiters

Non-diseased titers

getTiters

Subject level titers

getUnknown

Generate unknown

ImmunogenicitySubset

Immunogenicity subset

incorrectInput

Error message

incorrectPopulationInput

Population class error message

JitterMean

Population mean jittering

MLE

Maximum Likelihood estimation

numToBool

Numeric to boolean

PmaxEstimation

PoD curve paramater, pmax, estimation

PoD

Probability of disease calculation

PoDBAY

PoDBAY

PoDBAYEfficacy

PoDBAY efficacy estimation

PoDCI

PoD curve confidence ribbon

PoDCurvePlot

PoD curve: plot

PoDEfficacySquaredError

Optimization function: finds PoD curve paramaters (et50, slope)

PoDMLE

Setup for the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE)

PoDParamEstimation

PoD curve parameters estimation

PoDParamPointEstimation

PoD curve point estimate

PoDParamsCI

Confidence intervals of PoD curve parameters

PoDParamsCICoverage

Confidence intervals of PoD curve parameters at three confidence level...

popFun

Population function

Population-class

Population class

popX

Add noise to population titers

waldCI

Wald confidence interval estimation

Set of functions that implement the PoDBAY method, described in the publication 'A method to estimate probability of disease and vaccine efficacy from clinical trial immunogenicity data' by Julie Dudasova, Regina Laube, Chandni Valiathan, Matthew C. Wiener, Ferdous Gheyas, Pavel Fiser, Justina Ivanauskaite, Frank Liu and Jeffrey R. Sachs (NPJ Vaccines, 2021), <doi:10.1038/s41541-021-00377-6>.

  • Maintainer: Julie Dudasova (MSD)
  • License: GPL-3
  • Last published: 2021-09-21