PVR.confint {logistf}

Pseudo Variance Modification of Rubin's Rule

Description

The pseudo-variance modification proposed by Heinze, Ploner and Beyea (2013) provides a quick way to adapt Rubin's rules to situations of a non-normal distribution of a regression coefficient. However, the approxiation is less accurate than that of the CLIP method.

Usage

PVR.confint(obj, variable, skewbeta = FALSE)

Arguments

obj

A fitted logisf object

variable

The variable(s) to compute the PVR confidence intervals, either provided as names or as numbers

skewbeta

If TRUE, incorporates information on the skewness of the parameter estimates across the imputed data sets.

Details

The pseudo-variance modification computes a lower and an upper pseudo-variance, which are based on the distance between profile likelihood limits and the parameter estimates. These are then plugged into the usual Rubin's rules method of variance combination

Value

An object of class PVR.confint with items:

estimate

the pooled parameter estimate(s) (the average across completed-data estimates)

ci

the confidence intervals based on the PVR method

lower.var

the lower pseudo-variance(s)

upper.var

the upper pseudo-variance(s)

conflev

the confidence level: this is determined by the confidence level (1-alpha) used in the input fit objects

call

the function call

variable

the variable(s) for which confidence intervals were computed

Author(s)

Georg Heinze

References

Heinze G, Ploner M, Beyea J (2013). Confidence intervals after multiple imputation: combining profile likelihood information from logistic regressions. Statistics in Medicine, to appear.

Examples

#generate data set with NAs
freq=c(5,2,2,7,5,4)
y<-c(rep(1,freq[1]+freq[2]), rep(0,freq[3]+freq[4]), rep(1,freq[5]), rep(0,freq[6]))
x<-c(rep(1,freq[1]), rep(0,freq[2]), rep(1,freq[3]), rep(0,freq[4]), rep(NA,freq[5]),
   rep(NA,freq[6]))
toy<-data.frame(x=x,y=y)

# impute data set 5 times 
set.seed(169)
toymi<-list(0)
for(i in 1:5){
  toymi[[i]]<-toy
  y1<-toymi[[i]]$y==1 & is.na(toymi[[i]]$x)
  y0<-toymi[[i]]$y==0 & is.na(toymi[[i]]$x)
  xnew1<-rbinom(sum(y1),1,freq[1]/(freq[1]+freq[2]))
  xnew0<-rbinom(sum(y0),1,freq[3]/(freq[3]+freq[4]))
  toymi[[i]]$x[y1==TRUE]<-xnew1
  toymi[[i]]$x[y0==TRUE]<-xnew0
  }
  
# logistf analyses of each imputed data set
fit.list<-lapply(1:5, function(X) logistf(data=toymi[[X]], y~x, pl=TRUE))

# CLIP confidence limits
PVR.confint(obj=fit.list)