R Observatory: Metrics for multibias version 1.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

multibias

1.7.3Package record

Multiple Bias Analysis in Causal Inference

0packages depend

4.5Kdownloads / year

81.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul BrendelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Quantify exposure-outcome causal effects with adjustment for multiple biases. The functions can simultaneously adjust for any combination of uncontrolled confounding, exposure/outcome misclassification, and selection bias. The underlying method generalizes the combination of inverse probability of selection weighting with predictive value weighting. Simultaneous multi-bias analysis can be used to enhance the validity and transparency of real-world evidence obtained from observational, longitudinal studies. Based on the work from Paul Brendel, Aracelis Torres, and Onyebuchi Arah (2023) doi:10.1093/ije/dyad001.

Changes in 1.7.3

All adjust() functions - remove eval(parse()) and switch to matrix multiplication for better efficiency

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("multibias", 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("pcbrendel/multibias")

Development version from pcbrendel/multibias. 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-multibias

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-multibias

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-multibias

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 15.2 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-21
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.7.3

READMEYes · 395 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 33 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 80%4 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,643 · ~12/day · ~374/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51830 days

1.3K90 days

4.5K1 year

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Also on99 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pcbrendel/multibias ↗Account: pcbrendel

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

477Commits

2Commit identities

causal-inferencecausal-modelsepidemiologyr

477 commits · Last activity 2026-04-20

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-21 · 22026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pcbrendel/multibias on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-04-21

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-03-10
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 4.61 commit · Mar 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing multibias adds 31 packages (16 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (7)

dplyr lifecycle magrittr rlang broom purrr ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdownMASStestthat vdiffr (>= 1.0.5)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Paul Brendel

Releases (18)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.7.3Latest
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2026-04-20 · current release · diff ↗
1.7.2
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2025-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
multibias_plot
1.7.1
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2025-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.7
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2025-04-08 · diff ↗ ·
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added 2 exports
bias_params, multibias_adjust
1.6.3
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data_observed, data_validation
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adjust_multinom_uc_emc_sel, adjust_multinom_uc_omc_sel

added 9 exports
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1.5.2
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1.5.1
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.0
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2024-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
adjust_emc_omc, adjust_multinom_emc_omc

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1.3.0
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
adjust_omc_sel
1.2.1
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adjust_multinom_uc_omc, adjust_uc_omc
1.1.0
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adjust_omc
1.0.0
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2023-09-21
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-21
Total releases: 18 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Bundled data: 2.4 MB / 24 files
Download size: 3.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("multibias")

Format

Brendel, P. (2026). multibias: Multiple Bias Analysis in Causal Inference (Version 1.7.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.multibias

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for multibias version 1.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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