Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

medoutcon 0.2.0

  • Added support for a semiparametric correction for outcome-dependent two-phase sampling designs with known or estimated sampling weights.
  • Tightened sanity checks for estimation of natural direct and indirect effects by requiring that EIF scores related to intermediate confounders uniformly be zero when Z = NULL is specified.
  • The above required minor changes to est_tml() so as to avoid fluctuation models for the TMLE step from updating the intermediate confounder nuisance components (i.e., q_prime_Z_one, q_prime_Z_natural) and causing numerical issues that violate the above internal checks.

medoutcon 0.1.5

  • For user clarity, the name of the argument for providing externally computed observation-level weights has changed (from ext_weights) to svy_weights.
  • Support for the natural direct and indirect effects has been added, requiring the addition of the new internal argument effect_type across functions for estimation, including cv_eif(), est_onestep(), and est_tml(). When Z = NULL is set in medoutcon(), a natural effect estimate corresponding to the argument effect is returned instead of an interventional effect.
  • The summary() and print() methods have been updated to allow handling of natural effects and counterfactual means under arbitrary contrasts.

medoutcon 0.1.0

  • An initial public release of this package, version 0.1.0, which includes support for external observation-level weights.