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In nyilin/SamplingDesignTools: Tools for Dealing with Complex Sampling Designs

SamplingDesignTools: Tools for Dealing with Complex Sampling Designs

Installation

Install the SamplingDesignTools package from GitHub (package devtools needed):

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("nyilin/SamplingDesignTools")

Usage

The SamplingDesignTools package provides tools for working with study designs in epidemiological research, specifically the following study designs:

Case-control study:

• draw_mcc() to draw samples with or without matching on confounders.

Nested case-control (NCC) study:

• compute_km_weights() to compute Kaplan-Meier (KM) type weights for NCC samples with or without the full cohort.
• compute_km_weights_controls() to compute KM type weights for newly collected controls when reusing cases in a previously collected NCC sample.

Counter-matched nested case-control study:

• draw_ncc_cm() to draw counter-matched case-control samples with or without matching on confounders.

(More) extreme case-control (MECC) study:

• draw_mecc() to draw MECC samples with or without matching on confounders.
• analyse_mecc_cond() to estimate exposure effects from MECC samples.

Help documents for main functions above include minimal examples to illustrate function usage. Please refer to the online guidebook for detailed demonstration and discussion.

nyilin/SamplingDesignTools documentation built on Nov. 20, 2022, 8:07 a.m.