The ESTER package implements sequential testing based on
evidence ratios computed from the Akaike weights of a set of models.
These weights are being computed using either the Akaike Information
Criterion (AIC) or the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC).
To install the latest version from CRAN you can use
install.packages("ESTER")Or the development version can be installed with
if (!require("devtools") ) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("lnalborczyk/ESTER", dependencies = TRUE)Simulation. Given an expected effect size and a given sample size, what evolution of evidence ratios should I reasonnably expect ?
Observed data. When to stop recruiting participants ?
The simER function runs a simulated study in which we
compare two independant groups, for various effect size
(cohensd) and sample size (nmax). The
nmin argument serves to specify from which participant we
want to start doing sequential testing (we usually recommend to avoid
nmin < 10). We can define a boundary at
which we would like to stop the sequential testing, as well as how many
simulations we want to evaluate (nsims).
library(ESTER)
simER(cohensd = 0.8, nmin = 20, nmax = 100, boundary = 10, nsims = 100, ic = bic)On the other hand (and perhaps more interestingly),
ESTER can be used to do sequential testing on your own
data. You can study the evolution of sequential ERs using the
seqER function.
data(mtcars)
mod1 <- lm(mpg ~ cyl, mtcars)
mod2 <- lm(mpg ~ cyl + disp, mtcars)
seqER(ic = bic, mod1, mod2, nmin = 10)In addition, seqER allows you to study the behavior of
sequential ERs computed on your own data, along with sequential ERs
computed on permutation samples. This feature might be useful to study
to what extent the evolution of evidence ratios you observed on the
original sample is dependent to the order of the observations.
seqER(ic = bic, mod1, mod2, nmin = 10, nsims = 10)More detailed information can be found in the main vignette,
available online here,
or by typing vignette("ESTER") in the console.