EmpiricalCalibration
Routines for Performing Empirical Calibration of Observational Study Estimates
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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>.
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Error(s) in re-building vignettes: --- re-building 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' using rmarkdown ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `c8afbdada883c648aa103f6204bddc3f78842b30.pdf' not found: using draft setting. Error: processing vignette 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: LaTeX failed to compile D:/RCompile/CRANpkg/local/4.4/EmpiricalCalibration.Rcheck/vign_test/EmpiricalCalibration/vignettes/EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.log for more info. --- failed re-building 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' --- re-building 'EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.Rmd' using rmarkdown ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `422b122cf105d6040cfece977e48d356a5ad499e.pdf' not found: using draft setting. Error: processing vignette 'EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: LaTeX failed to compile D:/RCompile/CRANpkg/local/4.4/EmpiricalCalibration ...[truncated]... hui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.log for more info. --- failed re-building 'EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.Rmd' --- re-building 'EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' using rmarkdown ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `bf33c02e039c03c8ac6362932943f09fbf890f4f.pdf' not found: using draft setting. Error: processing vignette 'EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' failed with diagnostics: LaTeX failed to compile D:/RCompile/CRANpkg/local/4.4/EmpiricalCalibration.Rcheck/vign_test/EmpiricalCalibration/vignettes/EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.log for more info. --- failed re-building 'EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' SUMMARY: processing the following files failed: 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' 'EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.Rmd' 'EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted
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Error(s) in re-building vignettes: --- re-building 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' using rmarkdown ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `c8afbdada883c648aa103f6204bddc3f78842b30.pdf' not found: using draft setting. Error: processing vignette 'Empi ...[truncated]... lPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' SUMMARY: processing the following files failed: 'EmpiricalCiCalibrationVignette.Rmd' 'EmpiricalMaxSprtCalibrationVignette.Rmd' 'EmpiricalPCalibrationVignette.Rmd' Error: Vignette re-building failed. Execution halted