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ipd: an R package for conducting inference on predicted data
Stephen Salerno1, Jiacheng Miao2, Awan Afiaz1,3
1Public Health Sciences, Biostatistics, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109, United States.
Summary:
ipd is an open-source R software package for the downstream modeling of an outcome and its associated features where a potentially sizable portion of the outcome data has been imputed by an artificial intelligence or machine learning prediction algorithm. The package implements several recent proposed methods for inference on predicted data with a single, user-friendly wrapper function, ipd. The package also provides custom print, summary, tidy, glance, and augment methods to facilitate easy model inspection. This document introduces the ipd software package and provides a demonstration of its basic usage.
Availability:
ipd is freely available on CRAN or as a developer version at our GitHub page: github.com/ipd-tools/ipd. Full documentation, including detailed instructions and a usage 'vignette' are available at github.com/ipd-tools/ipd.
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