title: "estimability" output: html_document date: '2022-07-03'
R package estimability: Support for determining estimability of linear functions
Features
- A
nonest.basis()
function is provided that determines a basis for the null space of a matrix. This may be used in conjunction withis.estble()
to determine the estimability (within a tolerance) of a given linear function of the regression coefficients in a linear model. - A set of
epredict()
methods are provided forlm
,glm
, andmlm
objects. These work just likepredict()
, except anNA
is returned for any cases that are not estimable. This is a useful alternative to the generic warning that "predictions from rank-deficient models are unreliable." - A function
estble.subspace()
that projects a set of linear functions onto an
estimable subspace (possibly of smaller dimension). This can be useful in creating a set of estimable contrasts for joint testing. - Package developers may wish to import this package and incorporate
estimability checks for their
predict
methods.
Installation
- To install latest version from CRAN, run
install.packages("estimability")
Release notes for the latest CRAN version are found at https://cran.r-project.org/package=estimability/NEWS -- or do news(package = "estimability")
for notes on the version you have installed.
- To install the latest development version from Github, have the newest devtools package installed, then run
devtools::install_github("rvlenth/estimability", dependencies = TRUE)
For latest release notes on this development version, see the NEWS file