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This package for R implements measurement error correction methods formeasurement error in a continuous covariate or outcome in a linear modelwith a continuous outcome.

The package can be installed via

devtools::install_github("LindaNab/mecor",build_vignettes=TRUE)

library(mecor)# load the internal covariate validation studydata("vat",package="mecor")head(vat)# correct the biased exposure-outcome associationmecor(ir_ln~ MeasError(substitute=wc,reference=vat)+age+sex+tbf,data=vat,method="standard")

Browse the vignettes of the package for more information.

browseVignettes(package="mecor")

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