# Synthesizing Causal Evidence in a Distributed Research Network

## Documentation for package ‘EvidenceSynthesis’ version 0.5.0

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

approximateHierarchicalNormalPosterior | Approximate Bayesian posterior for hierarchical Normal model
approximateLikelihood | Approximate a likelihood function
approximateSimplePosterior | Approximate simple Bayesian posterior
biasCorrectionInference | Bias Correction with Inference
computeBayesianMetaAnalysis | Compute a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis
computeConfidenceInterval | Compute the point estimate and confidence interval given a likelihood function approximation
computeFixedEffectMetaAnalysis | Compute a fixed-effect meta-analysis
createSimulationSettings | Create simulation settings
customFunction | A custom function to approximate a log likelihood function
detectApproximationType | Detect the type of likelihood approximation based on the data format
fitBiasDistribution | Fit Bias Distribution
ncLikelihoods | Example profile likelihoods for negative control outcomes
ooiLikelihoods | Example profile likelihoods for a synthetic outcome of interest
plotBiasCorrectionInference | Plot bias correction inference
plotBiasDistribution | Plot bias distributions
plotCovariateBalances | Plot covariate balances
plotEmpiricalNulls | Plot empirical null distributions
plotLikelihoodFit | Plot the likelihood approximation
plotMcmcTrace | Plot MCMC trace
plotMetaAnalysisForest | Create a forest plot
plotPerDbMcmcTrace | Plot MCMC trace for individual databases
plotPerDbPosterior | Plot posterior density per database
plotPosterior | Plot posterior density
plotPreparedPs | Plot the propensity score distribution
preparePsPlot | Prepare to plot the propensity score distribution
sequentialFitBiasDistribution | Fit Bias Distribution Sequentially or in Groups
simulatePopulations | Simulate survival data for multiple databases
skewNormal | The skew normal function to approximate a log likelihood function
supportsJava8 | Determine if Java virtual machine supports Java