Simulation-Based Bias Analysis for Observational Studies

Allows user to conduct a simulation based quantitative bias analysis using covariate structures generated with individual-level data to characterize the bias arising from unmeasured confounding. Users can specify their desired data generating mechanisms to simulate data and quantitatively summarize findings in an end-to-end application using this package.


sim.BA

Unmeasured confounding is often raised as a source of potential bias when evaluating non-randomized study protocols, but evaluating such concerns during their design remains challenging. We propose a flexible methodology based on individual level simulations that can allow researchers to characterize the bias arising from unmeasured confounding with a specified but modifiable structure during the study design.

sim.BA allows user to conduct a simulation-based quantitative bias analysis using covariate structures generated with individual-level data to characterize the bias arising from unmeasured confounding. Users can specify their desired data generating mechanisms to simulate data and quantitatively summarize findings in an end-to-end application using this package. See vignette("sim.BA") for details.

Installation

You can install the development version of sim.BA from GitLab with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_gitlab("rjd48/sim.BA", host = "gitlab-scm.partners.org")

You can install the published version from CRAN with:

install.packages("sim.BA")

Reference manual

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install.packages("sim.BA")

0.1.0 by Rishi Desai, 3 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/sim.BA


Authors: Rishi Desai [aut, cre] , Noah Greifer [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports chk, cobalt, ggplot2, scales, pbapply, rlang, stats, survival, utils

Suggests MatchIt, WeightIt, parallel, openxlsx, knitr, rmarkdown


See at CRAN