EValue (version 4.1.4)

confounding: Unmeasured confounding

Description

A type of bias. Declares that unmeasured confounding will be a component of interest in the multi-bias sensitivity analysis. Generally used within other functions, its output is returned invisibly.

Usage

confounding(..., verbose = FALSE)

Value

Invisibly returns a list with components n (2, the degree of the polynomial in the numerator), d (1, the degree of the polynomial in the denominator), mess (any messages/warnings that should be printed for the user), and bias ("confounding").

Arguments

...

Other arguments. Not currently used for this function.

verbose

Logical. If TRUE, returns warnings and messages immediately. Defaults to FALSE because it is generally used within the multi_bias() function, which will print the same messages/warnings.

Examples

# returns invisibly without print()
print(confounding())

# Calculate an E-value for unmeasured confounding only
multi_evalue(est = RR(4), biases = confounding())