biasLovePlot: Create Love plot of treatment bias and instrument bias

In ivmodel: Statistical Inference and Sensitivity Analysis for Instrumental Variables Model

Create Love plot of treatment bias and instrument bias

Description

biasLovePlot creates a Love plot of the bias across the treatment and the instrument. Can also display the permutation quantiles for these quantities. Note that the bias is different for the treatment than for the instrument, as discussed in Equation (3) of Branson and Keele (2020). This function is used to create Figure 3b in Branson and Keele (2020).

Usage

biasLovePlot(X, D, Z, permQuantiles = FALSE, alpha = 0.05, perms = 1000)

Arguments

X	Covariate matrix (with units as rows and covariates as columns).
D	Indicator vector for a binary treatment (must contain 1 or 0 for each unit).
Z	Indicator vector for a binary instrument (must contain 1 or 0 for each unit).
permQuantiles	If TRUE, displays the permutation quantiles for the biases.
alpha	The significance level used for the permutation quantiles. For example, if alpha = 0.05, then the 2.5% and 97.5% permutation quantiles are displayed.
perms	Number of permutations used to approximate the permutation quantiles.

Value

Plot of the bias across the treatment and the instrument.

Author(s)

Zach Branson and Luke Keele

References

Branson, Z. and Keele, L. (2020). Evaluating a Key Instrumental Variable Assumption Using Randomization Tests. American Journal of Epidemiology. To appear.

Examples

  #load the data
  data(icu.data)
  #the covariate matrix is
  X = as.matrix(subset(icu.data, select = -c(open_bin, icu_bed)))
  #the treatment
  D = icu.data$icu_bed
  #the instrument
  Z = icu.data$open_bin
  #make the Love plot with permutation quantiles
  ## Not run: biasLovePlot(X = X, D = D, Z = Z, permQuantiles = TRUE, perms = 500)

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