Flexible Estimation of Odds Ratio Curves: Introducing the flexOR Package
Explore the relationship between continuous predictors and binary outcomes with flexOR, an R package designed for robust nonparametric estimation of odds ratio curves. Overcome limitations of traditional regression methods by leveraging smoothing techniques, particularly spline-based methods, providing adaptability to complex datasets. The package includes options for automatic selection of degrees of freedom in multivariable models, enhancing adaptability to diverse datasets and intuitive visualization functions facilitate the interpretation and presentation of estimated odds ratio curves.
If you want to use the release version of the flexOR package, you can install the package from CRAN as follows:
install.packages(pkgs="flexOR");If you want to use the development version of the flexOR package, you can install the package from GitHub via the remotes package:
remotes::install_github(
repo="martaaaa/flexOR",
build=TRUE,
build_manual=TRUE,
build_vignettes=TRUE
);Marta Azevedo, Luís Meira-Machado lmachado@math.uminho.pt
and Artur Araujo artur.stat@gmail.com
Maintainer: Marta Azevedo marta.vasconcelos4@gmail.com
This research was financed by FCT -- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under Projects UIDB/00013/2020, UIDP/00013/2020, and EXPL/MAT-STA/0956/2021.
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