A R Package for Fitting Bayesian Nested Partially Latent Class Models

How to install?

install.packages("devtools",repos="http://watson.nci.nih.gov/cran_mirror/")
devtools::install_github("zhenkewu/nplcm")

Why should someone use nplcm?

• To study disease etiology from case-control data from multiple sources that have measurement errors. If you are interested in estimating the population etiology pie (fraction), and the probability of each cause for individual case, try nplcm.

• Reference publication can be found here and here.

How does it compare to other existing solutions?

• Acknowledges various levels of measurement errors and combines multiple sources of data.

What are the main functions?

• nplcm that fits the model with or without covariates.

Platform

• Currently implemented for Windows system, 7 or 8, because nplcm uses WinBUGS to fit the models;

• The .bug model files are included here;

• For Mac OS X system, one can install the package and study the components of each function. If you find package ks cannot be loaded due to failure of loading package rgl, follow the following steps:

  1. install X11 by going here;

  2. install.packages("http://download.r-forge.r-project.org/src/contrib/rgl_0.95.1200.tar.gz",repo=NULL,type="source")