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

[Martin Eberhard Schauer]

>> # 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.
>>
>> -------------
>>
>>   "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.
>>      
> ...  For a start, is it appropriate
> to talk about the *data* being checked for accuracy?
 From my personal leftovers of the metrology lectures I attended it is 
sensible
to know the deviation of the measurement data to calculate the error
propagation while processing the data.
> ...  But we really need feedback from
> somebody who understands this package a lot better than I do.
>    
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DiagnosisMed/index.html

As the text is copied from upstream, upstream should be able to give 
some insight.