concurve | Graph Frequentist Distributions of Parameters 
Compute & Graph Confidence Distributions and Likelihood Functions
Sample image taken from Schweder T, Hjort NL. (2016)
For A Better Understanding of What These Are, See the Background Literature
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Install the package from CRAN and check out the articles, which can also be found below.
(It is highly recommended that you look at the articles.)
install.packages("concurve")Try the following script if you run into any installation issues:
install.packages("concurve", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/", dep = TRUE)Install the developer version from GitHub using the following:
remotes::install_github("zadrafi/concurve@master", dependencies = TRUE)See which versions of the package are currently supported here.
Articles
Check out the article on using Stata to obtain similar functions.
See the following articles:
- Comparison to Bayesian Posterior Distributions
- The Bootstrap and Consonance Functions
- Background Literature
- Customizing Plots
- Examples in R
- Logistic Regression in R
- Profile Likelihoods
- Meta-Analysis Examples
- Using Stata
- Survival Modeling
- S-values
- Generating Tables
- Troubleshooting
- Consonance Functions for Linear Mixed-Effects Models
- Wish List
Citation
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citation("concurve")Code of Conduct
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Environment
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