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The simex Package

This pakage for R implements the simex procedure developed by Cook & Stefanski for dealing with measurement error models, as well as the mcsimex for misclassified data developed by Küchenhoff, Mwalili and Lesaffre.

Installation

It can be found on [CRAN] (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/simex/index.html) and installed with

install.packages("simex")

The most current version can be installed via

devtools::install_github("wolfganglederer/simex")

simex NEWS:

Version 1.8:

• coxph from survival is now supported (Rasmus Froberg Brøndum) & PR by Heidi
• website added (Wolfgang)
• smaller fixes (Wolfgang)

Version 1.7:

(by Wolfgang Lederer)

• Option fitting.method in function simex() now really works properly for “linear” (Wolfgang)
• Smaller documentation fixes (Wolfgang)
• Uploaded to Github and moved documentation to roxygen2 (Wolfgang)
• Added support for proportional odds logistic regression (polr from library MASS) (Chris Lawrence)

Version 1.5:

(by Heidi Seibold & Wolfgang Lederer)

• Option fitting.method in function simex() now works properly for “linear” (Wolfgang)
• Measurement errors may now be heteroscedastic. Therefore the input-type had to be changed. The measurement error now has to be a matrix. (Heidi)
• The functions simex and print.summary.simex were adjusted. (Heidi)

Version 1.4:

(by Ph. Grosjean phgrosjean@sciviews.org)

• Object classes were renamed ‘simex’ and ‘mcsimex’ to match their constructor’s names simex() and mcsimex().
• Interface of mcsimex() has been homogenized with the one of simex(), with fitting.method at the sixth place instead of last one.
• print() methods now return x invisibly, as they are supposed to do.
• predict() methods failed when newdata was not provided. Fixed.
• refit() is now a generic function with methods for objects ‘simex’ and ‘mcsimex’. Its arguments have been reworked to match arguments of simex() and mcsimex() functions (jackknife becomes jackknife.estimation).
• A NAMESPACE is added and functions that are not supposed to be used by the end-user are now hidden in the namespace (construct.s(), fit.log() and fit.nls()).
• Documentation has been rewritten to match current R standards. Methods are now documented in the same page as the object creator. ‘Overview’ is rewritten and renamed ‘simex-package’.

References

Küchenhoff, H., Mwalili, S. M. and Lesaffre, E. (2006) A general method for dealing with misclassification in regression: The Misclassification SIMEX. Biometrics, 62, 85 – 96

Küchenhoff, H., Lederer, W. and E. Lesaffre. (2006) Asymptotic Variance Estimation for the Misclassification SIMEX. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 6197 – 6211

Lederer, W. and Küchenhoff, H. (2006) A short introduction to the SIMEX and MCSIMEX. R News, 6(4), 26–31

Cook, J.R. and Stefanski, L.A. (1994) Simulation-extrapolation estimation in parametric measurement error models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 89, 1314 – 1328

Carroll, R.J., Küchenhoff, H., Lombard, F. and Stefanski L.A. (1996) Asymptotics for the SIMEX estimator in nonlinear measurement error models. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 242 – 250

Carrol, R.J., Ruppert, D., Stefanski, L.A. and Crainiceanu, C. (2006). Measurement error in nonlinear models: A modern perspective., Second Edition. London: Chapman and Hall.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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