[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#635540: package description r-cran-diagnosismed

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

Package: r-cran-diagnosismed
Version: 0.2.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm afraid the description may need improvement.

# Package(s): r-cran-diagnosismed

Description: GNU R Diagnostic test accuracy evaluation for medical 
professionals
  DiagnosisMed is a package to analyze data from diagnostic test accuracy
  evaluating health conditions. It is being built to be used by health
  professionals. This package is able to estimate sensitivity and
  specificity from categorical and continuous test results including some
  evaluations of indeterminate results, or compare different categorical
  tests, and estimate reasonble cut-offs of tests and display it in a way
  commonly used by health professionals. No graphical interface is
  avalible yet.

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  "to analyze data from diagnostic test accuracy evaluating health 
conditions"
  is hard to understand (and translate). Perhaps the words are shuffled 
here and
  "to analyze the accuracy of data from diagnostic tests evaluating 
health conditions"
  was meant.

  Also "It is being built" sounds strange. What about "It was 
built/designed/made to ..."?

  "is able to" sounds like "German English" (I'm German). I would like 
to suggest
rephrasing the third sentence to

"This package can estimate sensitivity and  specificity from categorical and
continuous test results (including some evaluations of indeterminate 
results),
compare different categorical tests, and estimate reasonble cut-offs of 
tests and
display them in a way commonly used by health professionals."

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To sum up, I think that a discription such as

Description: GNU R Diagnostic test accuracy evaluation for medical 
professionals
  DiagnosisMed is a package to analyze the accuracy of data from
  diagnostic tests evaluating health conditions. It was designed to be used
  by health professionals. This package can estimate sensitivity and
  specificity from categorical and continuous test results (including some
  evaluations of indeterminate results), compare different categorical
  tests, and estimate reasonble cut-offs of tests and display them in a way
  commonly used by health professionals. No graphical interface is
  avalible yet.

is an improvement.

Kind regards,
        Martin