zadrafi / concurve

A repository for the 'concurve' R package which generates confidence distributions and likelihood functions. Includes documentation on how to do produce similar graphs for Stata.

concurve | Graph Frequentist Distributions of Parameters

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Compute & Graph Confidence Distributions and Likelihood Functions

Sample image taken from Schweder T, Hjort NL. (2016)

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For A Better Understanding of What These Are, See the Background Literature

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Compare The Functions From Different Studies

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Export Tables Easily For Word, Powerpoint, & TeX documents

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Install the package from CRAN and check out the articles, which can also be found below.

(It is highly recommended that you look at the articles.)

install.packages("concurve")

Try the following script if you run into any installation issues:

install.packages("concurve", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/", dep = TRUE)

Install the developer version from GitHub using the following:

remotes::install_github("zadrafi/concurve@master", dependencies = TRUE)

See which versions of the package are currently supported here.

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Articles

Check out the article on using Stata to obtain similar functions.

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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

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Citation

To properly cite the package, please see the following page or run the R script below.

citation("concurve")

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Code of Conduct

Please note that the concurve project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

Environment

The package was currently run on:

## R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
## Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
## Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.6
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRblas.dylib
## LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.0/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
## 
## locale:
## [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
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## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
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## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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##  [8] rmarkdown_2.4     knitr_1.30        stringr_1.4.0     xfun_0.18         digest_0.6.25     rlang_0.4.7       openssl_1.4.3    
## [15] sys_3.4           evaluate_0.14     askpass_1.1

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