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SimDesign (version 1.13)

Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs

Description

Provides tools to help safely and efficiently organize Monte Carlo simulations in R. The package controls the structure and back-end of Monte Carlo simulations by utilizing a general generate-analyse-summarise strategy. The functions provided control common simulation issues such as re-simulating non-convergent results, support parallel back-end and MPI distributed computations, save and restore temporary files, aggregate results across independent nodes, and provide native support for debugging. For a pedagogical introduction to the package refer to Sigal and Chalmers (2016) .

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install.packages('SimDesign')

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GPL (>= 2)

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Phil Chalmers

Last Published

January 18th, 2019

Functions in SimDesign (1.13)

Analyse

Compute estimates and statistics
BF_sim

Example simulation from Brown and Forsythe (1974)
BF_sim_alternative

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

Generate data
IRMSE

Compute the integrated root mean-square error
RMSE

Compute the (normalized) root mean square error
SimAnova

Function for decomposing the simulation into ANOVA-based effect sizes
SimBoot

Function to present bootstrap standard errors estimates for Monte Carlo simulation meta-statistics
Serlin2000

Empirical detection robustness method suggested by Serlin (2000)
SimShiny

Generate a basic Monte Carlo simulation GUI template
Summarise

Summarise simulated data using various population comparison statistics
ECR

Compute the empirical coverage rate for Type I errors and Power
EDR

Compute the empirical detection rate for Type I errors and Power
RD

Compute the relative difference
MAE

Compute the mean absolute error
RE

Compute the relative efficiency of multiple estimators
quiet

Suppress function messages and Concatenate and Print (cat)
rHeadrick

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

Generate data with the multivariate g-and-h distribution
MSRSE

Compute the relative performance behavior of collections of standard errors
rmvnorm

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

Skeleton functions for simulations
SimResults

Function to read in saved simulation results
bias

Compute (relative/standardized) bias summary statistic
boot_predict

Compute prediction estimates for the replication size using bootstrap MSE estimates
rmvt

Generate data with the multivariate t distribution
runSimulation

Run a Monte Carlo simulation given a data.frame of conditions and simulation functions
subset.SimDesign

Subset method for SimDesign objects
add_missing

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

Generate a random set of values within a truncated range
aggregate_simulations

Collapse separate simulation files into a single result
rint

Generate integer values within specified range
rinvWishart

Generate data with the inverse Wishart distribution
SimClean

Removes/cleans files and folders that have been saved
SimDesign

Structure for Organizing Monte Carlo Simulation Designs
Attach

Attach the simulation conditions for easier reference
rValeMaurelli

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

Rejection sampling (i.e., accept-reject method) to draw samples from difficult probability density functions