EmpiricalCalibration

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Routines for Performing Empirical Calibration of Observational Study Estimates

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Overview

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Maintained by Martijn SchuemieFirst published 2016-02-1515 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Routines for performing empirical calibration of observational study estimates. By using a set of negative control hypotheses we can estimate the empirical null distribution of a particular observational study setup. This empirical null distribution can be used to compute a calibrated p-value, which reflects the probability of observing an estimated effect size when the null hypothesis is true taking both random and systematic error into account. A similar approach can be used to calibrate confidence intervals, using both negative and positive controls. For more details, see Schuemie et al. (2013) doi:10.1002/sim.5925 and Schuemie et al. (2018) doi:10.1073/pnas.1708282114.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EmpiricalCalibration", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("OHDSI/EmpiricalCalibration")

Development version from OHDSI/EmpiricalCalibration. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-empiricalcalibration

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EmpiricalCalibration

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

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READMEYes · 380 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 82%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 93%
References docs: 21%

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Repository

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-15
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 13 KB / 5 files
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