Simulation and power analysis of generalized linear mixed models

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Simulation and power analysis of generalized linear mixed models

Brandon LeBeau

University of Iowa

Overview

  1. (G)LMMs
  2. Power
  3. simglm package
  4. Demo Shiny App!

Linear Mixed Model (LMM)

Power

  • Power is the ability to statistically detect a true effect (i.e. non-zero population effect).
  • For simple models (e.g. t-tests, regression) there are closed form equations for generating power.
    • R has routines for these: power.t.test, power.anova.test
    • Gpower3

Power Example

n <- seq(4, 1000, 2)
power <- sapply(seq_along(n), function(i) 
  power.t.test(n = n[i], delta = .15, sd = 1, type = 'two.sample')$power)

Power for (G)LMM

Power is hard

  • In practice, power is hard.
  • Need to make many assumptions on data that has not been collected.
    • Therefore, data assumptions made for power computations will likely differ from collected sample.
  • A power analysis needs to be flexible, exploratory, and well thought out.

simglm Overview

  • simglm aims to simulate (G)LMMs with up to three levels of nesting (aim to add more later).
  • Flexible data generation allows:
    • any number of covariates and discrete covariates
    • change random distribution
    • unbalanced data
    • missing data
    • serial correlation.
  • Also has routines to generate power.

Demo Shiny App

shiny::runGitHub('simglm', username = 'lebebr01', subdir = 'inst/shiny_examples/demo')

or

devtools::install_github('lebebr01/simglm')
library(simglm)
run_shiny()
  • Must have following packages installed: simglm, shiny, shinydashboard, ggplot2, lme4, DT.

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