simSummary: Simulation summary

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

Description

simSummary eases the process of summarizing simulation results. Simulations often produce some intermediate results (some focal statistic(s)), that need to be summarized over many simulation replicates. simSummary helps with summarizing these focal statistics.

Usage

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simSummary(x,
FUN = c("length",
"nobs",
"mean",
"sd",
"min",
"max"),
...)

Arguments

x

an (outer) list of (inner) lists, where each inner list has exactly the same structure (see examples)

FUN

character, summary statistics function names

...

arguments passed to summary functions

Details

simSummary accepts as input an (outer) list of (inner) lists, where all inner lists must have the same structure and only scalars, vectors, matrices, and arrays can be used in inner lists. Function combines all inputs in a list of arrays and summarizes array values with specified functions that can work on vector like inputs.

Value

The return element is also a list (outer) of lists (inner), where each inner list has the same structure as inner lists of input, but holding one of the summary statistics - one summary statistics per one inner list.

Author(s)

Gregor Gorjanc

Examples

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## Create simple input from a rather silly simulation
simFun <- function(x)
{
  ret <- list()
  ret$s <- rnorm(n=1)
  ret$v <- rnorm(n=5)
  ret$m <- matrix(rnorm(n=5*5), nrow=5, ncol=5)
  ret$a <- array(rnorm(n=4*3*2), dim=c(4, 3, 2))
  ret
}
sim <- list()
sim$sim1 <- simFun()
sim$sim2 <- simFun(x=0)
sim$sim3 <- simFun(x=1)

## Simulation summary (just mean and standard deviation)
simSummary(x=sim, FUN=c("mean", "sd"))

## Can handle simulations in process too = handle NA values
sim$sim3$s <- NA
sim$sim3$v[5] <- NA
simSummary(x=sim, FUN="mean")
simSummary(x=sim, FUN="mean", na.rm=TRUE)

## Unit tests (automatic run elsewhere)
## summary(runTest(test(simSummary)))

simSummary documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:50 a.m.