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median_hilow defaults to conf.int=.95 #6877

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@ndevln

Hi everyone,

this is a suggestion for a minor change.

median_hilow is reexported and wrapped from Hmisc::smedian.hilow. This function defaults to conf.int = .95.

My expected behavior would be that the function returns the range of the data for ymin and ymax. This is currently not the case, but can be achieved by setting conf.int = 1. This would be the behavior I expect and this could possibly be a source of confusion.

I would have some suggestions how to deal with this:

  • Changing the default to conf.int = 1, but this would break backwards compatibility
  • Adding another function median_minmax or median_range. Probably better, but results in similarly named functon with different behavior.
  • Adding a notice to the docs.
    • Add an example how to set the conf.int.
    • Or an example with fun.min = min, fun.max = max.

I am happy to help with the implementation of these or other solutions. If you consider this a non-problem please close this issue.

Greetings
Alex

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