Practicals for the APTS Module "Causal Inference" 2024 (V. Didelez and R.J. Evans)

Practicals for the Module "Causal Inference" at the Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/apts/programme/causinf/)

Installation

For APTS we recommend using the Codespace set up by Louis Aslett for the Machine Learning module.

If you use your own machine, ensure you have R v4.0.0 or higher. Windows users, please make sure that rtools is installed on your computer! (https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/)

Install the package remotes from CRAN. Then run the following commands to install these repository as package in R. The R package APTSCausalInference installs all necessary packages for the practicals and builds the vignette (solution for the practicals):

# during installation: plz update all packages!!!
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("bips-hb/APTS_Causal_Inference")

# load package
library(APTSCausalInference)

# Load the data
data(bcrot)

The solutions of the practicals will be provided during the course. It is then best to install the package again and open the corresponding vignette with the following command:

# Build the vignette which contains the solutions of the practicals (will be made available during the course)
remotes::install_github("bips-hb/APTS_Causal_Inference", build_vignettes = TRUE)
vignette("APTS", package = "APTSCausalInference")