The gfoRmula package implements the parametric g-formula in R. The parametric g-formula (Robins, 1986) uses longitudinal data with time-varying treatments and confounders to estimate the risk or mean of an outcome under hypothetical treatment strategies specified by the user.
You can install the released version of gfoRmula from CRAN with:
install.packages("gfoRmula")After installing the devtools package (i.e., calling
install.packages(devtools)), the development version of gfoRmula can
be installed from GitHub with:
devtools::install_github("CausalInference/gfoRmula")Please refer to McGrath et
al. (2020) for a detailed
guide to the gfoRmula package.
The gfoRmula package implements the parametric g-formula in R. The parametric g-formula (Robins, 1986) uses longitudinal data with time-varying treatments and confounders to estimate the risk or mean of an outcome under hypothetical treatment strategies specified by the user.