rmpw

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Causal Mediation Analysis Using Weighting Approach

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Overview

About

Maintained by Xu QinFirst published 2017-02-276 releasesCRAN page ↗

We implement causal mediation analysis using the methods proposed by Hong (2010) and Hong, Deutsch & Hill (2015) doi:10.3102/1076998615583902. It allows the estimation and hypothesis testing of causal mediation effects through ratio of mediator probability weights (RMPW). This strategy conveniently relaxes the assumption of no treatment-by-mediator interaction while greatly simplifying the outcome model specification without invoking strong distributional assumptions. We also implement a sensitivity analysis by extending the RMPW method to assess potential bias in the presence of omitted pretreatment or posttreatment covariates. The sensitivity analysis strategy was proposed by Hong, Qin, and Yang (2018) doi:10.3102/1076998617749561.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-rmpw

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-rmpw

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-rmpw

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

Health

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Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,042 (84%)Rd 196 (16%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 30.0 median / 32 max
Documented parameters: 100%

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Xu Qin

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Authors (3)

Xu Qin

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Guanglei Hong

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Fan Yang

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-27
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 16 KB / 1 file
Download size: 32 KB
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