concurve-package: A description of the 'concurve' 'R' package

In Zadchow/concurve: Computes & Plots Compatibility (Confidence), Surprisal, & Likelihood Distributions

A description of the concurve R package

Description

Allows one to compute compatibility (confidence) intervals for various statistical tests along with their corresponding P-values, S-values, and likelihoods. The intervals can be plotted to create consonance, surprisal, and likelihood functions allowing one to see what effect sizes are compatible with the test model at various compatibility levels rather than being limited to one interval estimate such as 95%.

Package:	concurve
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Type:	Package
Version:	2.7.7
Date:	2020-10-07
License:	GLP-3

Details

Accepts most modeling functions that produce confidence intervals to construct distributions. Instructions are also provided on how to construct similar graphs for Stata.

See the following articles:

• Comparison to Bayesian Posterior Distributions

• The Bootstrap and Consonance Functions

• Background Literature

• Customizing Plots

• Examples in R

• Logistic Regression in R

• Profile Likelihoods

• Meta-Analysis Examples

• Using Stata

• Survival Modeling

• S-values

• Generating Tables

• Troubleshooting

• Consonance Functions for Linear Mixed-Effects Models

• Wish List

Author(s)

Zad Rafi, Andrew D. Vigotsky

References

Rafi, Z., and Greenland, S. (2020), “Semantic and Cognitive Tools to Aid Statistical Science: Replace Confidence and Significance by Compatibility and Surprise" BMC Medical Research Methodology https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01105-9

Fraser DAS. The P-value function and statistical inference. The American Statistician. 2019;73(sup1):135-147. doi:10.1080/00031305.2018.1556735 https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2018.1556735

Fraser DAS. P-Values: The Insight to Modern Statistical Inference. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 2017;4(1):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-statistics-060116-054139

Poole C. Beyond the confidence interval. American Journal of Public Health. 1987;77(2):195-199. doi:10.2105/AJPH.77.2.195 https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1410

Poole C. Confidence intervals exclude nothing. American Journal of Public Health. 1987;77(4):492-493. doi:10.2105/ajph.77.4.492 https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.4.492

Schweder T, Hjort NL. Confidence and Likelihood*. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 2002;29(2):309-332. doi:10.1111/1467-9469.00285 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9469.00285

Schweder T, Hjort NL. Confidence, Likelihood, Probability: Statistical Inference with Confidence Distributions. Cambridge University Press; 2016. https://books.google.com/books/about/Confidence_Likelihood_Probability.html?id=t7KzCwAAQBAJ

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See Also

curve_gen, ggcurve, curve_table

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