Routines for performing empirical calibration of observational study estimates. By using a set of negative control hypotheses we can estimate the empirical null distribution of a particular observational study setup. This empirical null distribution can be used to compute a calibrated p-value, which reflects the probability of observing an estimated effect size when the null hypothesis is true taking both random and systematic error into account. A similar approach can be used to calibrate confidence intervals, using both negative and positive controls. For more details, see Schuemie et al. (2013) <doi:10.1002/sim.5925> and Schuemie et al. (2018) <doi:10.1073/pnas.1708282114>.
| Version: | 3.1.4 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5.0) | 
| Imports: | ggplot2 (≥ 2.0.0), gridExtra, methods, rlang, Rcpp | 
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp | 
| Suggests: | knitr, markdown, rmarkdown, testthat, Cyclops, survival, Sequential | 
| Published: | 2025-02-14 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.EmpiricalCalibration | 
| Author: | Martijn Schuemie | 
| Maintainer: | Martijn Schuemie <schuemie at ohdsi.org> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/OHDSI/EmpiricalCalibration/issues | 
| License: | Apache License 2.0 | 
| URL: | https://ohdsi.github.io/EmpiricalCalibration/, https://github.com/OHDSI/EmpiricalCalibration | 
| NeedsCompilation: | yes | 
| Citation: | EmpiricalCalibration citation info | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| CRAN checks: | EmpiricalCalibration results | 
| Reference manual: | EmpiricalCalibration.html , EmpiricalCalibration.pdf | 
| Vignettes: | Empirical calibration of confidence intervals (source, R code) Empirical calibration and MaxSPRT (source, R code) Empirical calibration of p-values (source, R code) | 
| Package source: | EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.tar.gz | 
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.zip, r-release: EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.zip, r-oldrel: EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.zip | 
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): EmpiricalCalibration_3.1.4.tgz | 
| Old sources: | EmpiricalCalibration archive | 
| Reverse imports: | debiasedTrialEmulation, EvidenceSynthesis, SelfControlledCaseSeries | 
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