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SimDesign

Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs

Installation

To install the latest stable version of the package from CRAN, please use the following in your R console:

install.packages('SimDesign')

To install the Github version of the package with devtools, type the following (assuming you have already installed the devtools package from CRAN).

library('devtools')
install_github('philchalmers/SimDesign')

Getting started

For a discription pertaining to the philosophy and general workflow of the package it is helpful to first read through the following: Chalmers, R. Philip, Adkins, Mark C. (2020) Writing Effective and Reliable Monte Carlo Simulations with the SimDesign Package, The Quantitative Methods for Psychology, 16(4), 248-280. doi: 10.20982/tqmp.16.4.p248

Coding examples found within this article range from relatively simple (e.g., a re-implementation of one of Hallgren's (2013) simulation study examples, as well as possible extensions to the simulation design) to more advanced real-world simulation experiments (e.g., Flora and Curran's (2004) simulation study). For additional information and instructions about how to use the package please refer to the examples in the associated Github wiki.

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Functions in SimDesign (2.17.1)

Compute the relative efficiency of multiple estimators

Compute the (normalized) root mean square error

Probabilistic Bisection Algorithm

Compute the relative difference

Perform a test that indicates whether a given Generate() function should be executed

Compute the mean absolute error

Compute the relative performance behavior of collections of standard errors

Compute the relative absolute bias of multiple estimators

Compute the relative standard error ratio

Compute the integrated root mean-square error

Robbins-Monro (1951) stochastic root-finding algorithm

Function for decomposing the simulation into ANOVA-based effect sizes

Template-based generation of the Generate-Analyse-Summarise functions

Removes/cleans files and folders that have been saved

Function to extract extra information from SimDesign objects

Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs

Empirical detection robustness method suggested by Serlin (2000)

Check for missing files in array simulations

Surrogate Function Approximation via the Generalized Linear Model

Collapse separate simulation files into a single result

Add missing values to a vector given a MCAR, MAR, or MNAR scheme

Compute (relative/standardized) bias summary statistic

Function to read in saved simulation results

Form Column Standard Deviation and Variances

Generate a basic Monte Carlo simulation GUI template

Compute prediction estimates for the replication size using bootstrap MSE estimates

clusterSetRNGSubStream

Set RNG sub-stream for Pierre L'Ecuyer's RngStreams

Create the simulation design object

One Dimensional Root (Zero) Finding in Simulation Experiments

Summarise simulated data using various population comparison statistics

Increase the intensity or suppress the output of an observed message

Manage specific warning messages

Create the simulation design object

Suppress verbose function messages

Get job array ID (e.g., from SLURM or other HPC array distributions)

Auto-named Concatenation of Vector or List

Generate random seeds

Generate non-normal data with Headrick's (2002) method

Generate non-normal data with Vale & Maurelli's (1983) method

rbind.SimDesign

Combine two separate SimDesign objects by row

rejectionSampling

Rejection sampling (i.e., accept-reject method)

Generate data with the inverse Wishart distribution

Generate data with the multivariate t distribution

Generate data with the multivariate g-and-h distribution

Generate a random set of values within a truncated range

Run a summarise step for results that have been saved to the hard drive

runArraySimulation

Run a Monte Carlo simulation using array job submissions per condition

Generate integer values within specified range

Generate data with the multivariate normal (i.e., Gaussian) distribution

Run a Monte Carlo simulation given conditions and simulation functions

Format time string to suitable numeric output

Example simulation from Brown and Forsythe (1974)

Perform a test that indicates whether a given Analyse() function should be executed

Compute estimates and statistics

Compute congruence coefficient

Attach objects for easier reference

Bradley's (1978) empirical robustness interval

Compute the empirical detection/rejection rate for Type I errors and Power

Compute empirical coverage rates

BF_sim_alternative

(Alternative) Example simulation from Brown and Forsythe (1974)