.mcee_check_control_formula

Validate control formula excludes treatment and outcome

Provides methods to analyze micro-randomized trials (MRTs) with binary treatment options. Supports four types of analyses: (1) proximal causal excursion effects, including weighted and centered least squares (WCLS) for continuous proximal outcomes by Boruvka et al. (2018) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2017.1305274> and the estimator for marginal excursion effect (EMEE) for binary proximal outcomes by Qian et al. (2021) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa070>; (2) distal causal excursion effects (DCEE) for continuous distal outcomes using a two-stage estimator by Qian (2025) <doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujaf134>; (3) mediated causal excursion effects (MCEE) for continuous distal outcomes, estimating natural direct and indirect excursion effects in the presence of time-varying mediators by Qian (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.20027>; and (4) standardized proximal effect size estimation for continuous proximal outcomes, generalizing the approach in Luers et al. (2019) <doi:10.1007/s11121-017-0862-5> to allow adjustment for baseline and time-varying covariates for improved efficiency.

Tianchen Qian

MRTAnalysis

Assessing Proximal, Distal, and Mediated Causal Excursion
Effects for Micro-Randomized Trials

Shaolin Xiang

Zhaoxi Cheng

Xinyi Song

John Dziak

Audrey Boruvka

.mcee_check_control_formula function

<dl><dt>control_formula</dt>
<dd>RHS-only formula for control variables</dd>
<dt>treatment</dt>
<dd>Treatment column name</dd>
<dt>outcome</dt>
<dd>Outcome column name</dd>
<dt>dp</dt>
<dd>Decision point column name (used in error messages)</dd>
<dt>label</dt>
<dd>Descriptive label for error messages</dd></dl>

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Validate control formula excludes treatment and outcome — .mcee_check_control_formula

<dl>

<dt>control_formula</dt>
<dd>RHS-only formula for control variables</dd>


<dt>treatment</dt>
<dd>Treatment column name</dd>


<dt>outcome</dt>
<dd>Outcome column name</dd>


<dt>dp</dt>
<dd>Decision point column name (used in error messages)</dd>


<dt>label</dt>
<dd>Descriptive label for error messages</dd>

</dl>

.mcee_check_control_formula: Validate control formula excludes treatment and outcome

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