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• Introduction

  • Purpose of simulations
  • Organization
  • Why R?
  • Writing functions

• First examples:

  • Something involving point estimation
  • One-sample t-test

• The mechanics of simulation

  • structure of a simulation study
  • modular simulation
  • validating simulation functions
  • data-generating model
  • estimation procedures
  • performance criteria
  • simulation driver

• Computing simulations

  • experimental design
  • computation
    • serial workflow
    • parallel workflow

• Performance criteria and monte carlo error

• Design, analysis, and presentation

• Case study: Complex power analysis

• Case study: Complier average treatment effects