crr {targeted}

Conditional Relative Risk estimation

Description

Conditional Relative Risk estimation via Double Machine Learning

Usage

crr(
  treatment,
  response_model,
  propensity_model,
  importance_model,
  contrast = c(1, 0),
  data,
  nfolds = 5,
  type = "dml1",
  ...
)

Arguments

treatment

formula specifying treatment and variables to condition on

response_model

SL object

propensity_model

SL object

importance_model

SL object

contrast

treatment contrast (default 1 vs 0)

data

data.frame

nfolds

Number of folds

type

'dml1' or 'dml2'

...

additional arguments to SuperLearner

Value

cate.targeted object

Author(s)

Klaus Kähler Holst & Andreas Nordland

Examples

sim1 <- function(n=1e4,
                 seed=NULL,
                 return_model=FALSE, ...){
suppressPackageStartupMessages(require("lava"))
if (!is.null(seed)) set.seed(seed)
m <- lava::lvm()
distribution(m, ~x) <- gaussian.lvm()
distribution(m, ~v) <- gaussian.lvm(mean = 10)
distribution(m, ~a) <- binomial.lvm("logit")
regression(m, "a") <- function(v, x){.1*v + x}
distribution(m, "y") <- gaussian.lvm()
regression(m, "y") <- function(a, v, x){v+x+a*x+a*v*v}
if (return_model) return(m)
lava::sim(m, n = n)
}

d <- sim1(n = 2e3, seed = 1)
if (require("SuperLearner",quietly=TRUE)) {
  e <- crr(data=d,
           type = "dml2",
           treatment = a ~ v,
           response_model = ML(y~ a*(x + v + I(v^2))),
           importance_model = ML(D_ ~ v + I(v^2)),
           propensity_model = ML(a ~ x + v + I(v^2), family=binomial),
           nfolds = 2)
  summary(e) # the true parameters are c(1,1)
}