R/utils.R

In brglm2: Bias Reduction in Generalized Linear Models

# Copyright (C) 2016- Ioannis Kosmidis

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unless_null <- function(x, if_null) {
    if (is.null(x)) {
        if_null
    } else {
        x
    }
}



get_type_description <- function(type, parenthesized = TRUE) {
    pp <- function(txt) {
        ifelse(parenthesized, paste0("(", txt, ")"), txt)
    }
    switch(type,
           "ML" = pp("maximum likelihood"),
           "correction" = pp("bias correction"),
           "AS_mean" = pp("mean bias-reducing adjusted score equations"),
           "AS_median" = pp("median bias-reducing adjusted score equations"),
           "AS_mixed" = pp("mixed bias-reducing adjusted score equations"),
           "MPL_Jeffreys" = pp("maximum penalized likelihood with Jeffreys'-prior penalty"),
           "Lylesetal2012" = pp("Lyles et al., 2012; doi: 10.1016/j.jspi.2012.05.005"),
           "correction*" = pp("explicit mean bias correction with a multiplicative adjustment"),
           "correction+" = pp("explicit mean bias correction with an additive adjustment")
           )
}