simulate_design {DeclareDesign}

R Documentation

Simulate a design

Description

Runs many simulations of a design and returns a simulations data.frame.

Usage

simulate_design(..., sims = 500)

simulate_designs(..., sims = 500)

Arguments

...	A design created using the + operator, or a set of designs. You can also provide a single list of designs, for example one created by expand_design.
sims	The number of simulations, defaulting to 500. If sims is a vector of the form c(10, 1, 2, 1) then different steps of a design will be simulated different numbers of times.

Details

Different steps of a design may each be simulated different a number of times, as specified by sims. In this case simulations are grouped into "fans". The nested structure of simulations is recorded in the dataset using a set of variables named "step_x_draw." For example if sims = c(2,1,1,3) is passed to simulate_design, then there will be two distinct draws of step 1, indicated in variable "step_1_draw" (with values 1 and 2) and there will be three draws for step 4 within each of the step 1 draws, recorded in "step_4_draw" (with values 1 to 6).

Examples

my_model <- 
  declare_model(
    N = 500, 
    U = rnorm(N),
    Y_Z_0 = U, 
    Y_Z_1 = U + rnorm(N, mean = 2, sd = 2)
  )

my_assignment <- declare_assignment(Z = complete_ra(N))

my_inquiry <- declare_inquiry(ATE = mean(Y_Z_1 - Y_Z_0))

my_estimator <- declare_estimator(Y ~ Z, inquiry = my_inquiry)

my_reveal <- declare_measurement(Y = reveal_outcomes(Y ~ Z))

design <- my_model +
  my_inquiry +
  my_assignment +
  my_reveal +
  my_estimator

## Not run: 
simulations <- simulate_design(designs, sims = 2)
diagnosis <- diagnose_design(simulations_df = simulations)

## End(Not run)

## Not run: 
# A fixed population with simulations over assignment only
head(simulate_design(design, sims = c(1, 1, 1, 100, 1)))

## End(Not run)

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