RR can be used to calculate the causal risk ratio of a binary/continuous/discrete endogenous predictor/treatment, with
corresponding interval obtained using posterior simulation.
RR(x, nm.end, E = TRUE, treat = TRUE, type = "bivariate", ind = NULL,
n.sim = 100, prob.lev = 0.05, length.out = NULL, hd.plot = FALSE,
rr.plot = FALSE,
main = "Histogram and Kernel Density of Simulated Risk Ratios",
xlab = "Simulated Risk Ratios", ...)A fitted SemiParBIVProbit/copulaReg object.
Name of the endogenous variable.
If TRUE then RR calculates the sample RR. If FALSE then it calculates the sample RR
for the treated individuals only.
If TRUE then RR calculates the RR using the treated only. If FALSE then it calculates the ratio using
the control group. This only makes sense if E = FALSE.
This argument can take three values: "naive" (the effect is calculated ignoring the presence of observed and unobserved confounders), "univariate" (the effect is obtained from the univariate probit model which neglects the presence of unobserved confounders) and "bivariate" (the effect is obtained from the bivariate model which accounts for observed and unobserved confounders).
Binary logical variable. It can be used to calculate the RR for a subset of the data. Note that it does not make sense to use ind
when some observations are excluded from the RR calculation (e.g., when using E = FALSE).
Number of simulated coefficient vectors from the posterior distribution of the estimated model parameters. This is used
when delta = FALSE. It may be increased if more precision is required.
Overall probability of the left and right tails of the RR distribution used for interval calculations.
Ddesired length of the sequence to be used when calculating the effect that a continuous/discrete treatment has on a binary outcome.
If TRUE then a plot of the histogram and kernel density estimate of the simulated risk ratios is produced. This can
only be produced when binary responses are used.
For the case of continuous/discrete endogenous variable and binary outcome, if TRUE then a plot (on the log scale)
showing the risk ratios that the binary outcome is equal to 1 for each incremental value of the endogenous variable
and respective intervals is produced.
Title for the plot.
Title for the x axis.
Other graphics parameters to pass on to plotting commands. These are used only when hd.plot = TRUE.
Probability level used.
It returns a vector containing simulated values of the average RR. This is used to calculate intervals.
For the case of continuous/discrete endogenous variable and binary outcome, it returns a matrix made up of three columns containing the risk ratios for each incremental value in the endogenous variable and respective intervals.
RR calculates the causal risk ratio of the probabilities of positive outcome under treatment (the binary predictor or treatment assumes value 1) and under control (the binary treatment assumes value 0). Posterior simulation is used to obtain a confidence/credible interval.
RR works also for the case of continuous/discrete endogenous treatment variable.
## see examples for SemiParBIVProbit and copulaReg
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