This repository contains the data and code for the replication attempt of :
Austin, P. C. (2011). Optimal caliper widths for propensity-score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies. Pharmaceutical Statistics, 10(2), 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1002/pst.433
The analysis directory contains:
- 📁 paper: R Markdown source document for manuscript. Includes code to reproduce the figures and tables generated by the analysis.
- 📁 data: Data used in the analysis.
- 📁 figures: Plots and other illustrations
- 📁 supplementary-materials: Supplementary materials including notes and other documents prepared and collected during the analysis.
This research compendium has been developed using the statistical programming language R. To work with the compendium, you will need installed on your computer the R software itself and optionally RStudio Desktop.
The simplest way to explore the text, code and data is to click on binder to open an instance of RStudio in your browser, which will have the compendium files ready to work with. Binder uses rocker-project.org Docker images to ensure a consistent and reproducible computational environment. These Docker images can also be used locally.
You can download the compendium as a zip from from this URL:
master.zip. After unzipping: - open the .Rproj
file in RStudio - run devtools::install() to ensure you have the
packages this analysis depends on (also listed in the
DESCRIPTION file). - finally, open
analysis/paper/report.Rmd and knit to produce the paper.docx, or run
rmarkdown::render("analysis/paper/paper.Rmd") in the R console
Text and figures : CC-BY-4.0
Code : See the DESCRIPTION file
Data : CC-0 attribution requested in reuse
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