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I have recently started a new job at an NHS hospital in Scotland. Since I took up this post 6 months ago I have had an ongoing dispute with the IT secutiry dept. who refuse to install R on my computer. I previously worked in another branch of the NHS where R was widely used and yet there is nothing I can say which will persuade the IT dept here to even visit the website! With some help from our

Hello Thanks to Frank Harrell for the great Design package. I noted from Pencina's Article (Statistics in Medicine Vol 27, pp157-172) that the result obtained for the Net Reclassification Index depends upon categorical cut-offs for risk (eg in the paper <6%, 6-20% and >20%). I wondered how the improveprob function arrives at its cut-offs, and whether there was any function to change the