Nonparametric Methods for Generating High Quality Comparative Effectiveness Evidence

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Documentation for package ‘LocalControl’ version 1.1.3

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
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cardSim	Simulated cardiac medication data for survival analysis
framingham	Framingham heart study data extract on smoking and hypertension.
lindner	Lindner Center for Research and Education study on Abciximab cost-effectiveness and survival
LocalControl	Local Control
LocalControl-deprecated	Deprecated LocalControl functions
LocalControlClassic	Local Control Classic
localControlCompetingRisks	Deprecated LocalControl functions
LocalControlCompetingRisksConfidence	Calculate confidence intervals around the cumulative incidence functions (CIFs) generated by LocalControl when outcomeType = "survival".
localControlNearestNeighbors	Deprecated LocalControl functions
LocalControlNearestNeighborsConfidence	Provides a bootstrapped confidence interval estimate for LocalControl LTDs.
plot.LocalControlCR	Plot cumulative incidence functions (CIFs) from Local Control.
plot.LocalControlCS	Plots the local treatment difference as a function of radius for LocalControl.
plotLocalControlCIF	Deprecated LocalControl functions
plotLocalControlLTD	Deprecated LocalControl functions
SPSbalan	Test for Within-Bin X-covariate Balance in Supervised Propensiy Scoring
SPSloess	LOESS Smoothing of Outcome by Treatment in Supervised Propensiy Scoring
SPSlogit	Propensity Score prediction of Treatment Selection from Patient Baseline X-covariates
SPSnbins	Change the Number of Bins in Supervised Propensiy Scoring
SPSoutco	Examine Treatment Differences on an Outcome Measure in Supervised Propensiy Scoring
UPSaccum	Prepare for Accumulation of (Outcome,Treatment) Results in Unsupervised Propensity Scoring
UPSaltdd	Artificial Distribution of LTDs from Random Clusters
UPSboxplot	Returns a series of boxplots comparing LTD distributions given different numbers of clusters.
UPSgraph	Display Sensitivity Analysis Graphic in Unsupervised Propensiy Scoring
UPShclus	Hierarchical Clustering of Patients on X-covariates for Unsupervised Propensiy Scoring
UPSivadj	Instrumental Variable LATE Linear Fitting in Unsupervised Propensiy Scoring
UPSLTDdist	Plot the LTD distribution as a function of the number of clusters.
UPSnnltd	Nearest Neighbor Distribution of LTDs in Unsupervised Propensiy Scoring