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Main Authors: Kenny, Avi, Wolock, Charles J.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05698
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author Kenny, Avi
Wolock, Charles J.
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Wolock, Charles J.
contents This article describes SimEngine, an open-source R package for structuring, maintaining, running, and debugging statistical simulations on both local and cluster-based computing environments. Several R packages exist for structuring simulations, but SimEngine is the only package specifically designed for running simulations in parallel via job schedulers on high-performance cluster computing systems. The package provides structure and functionality for common simulation tasks, such as setting simulation levels, managing seeds for random number generation, and calculating summary metrics (such as bias and confidence interval coverage). SimEngine also brings several unique features, such as automatic calculation of Monte Carlo error and information-sharing across simulation replicates. We provide an overview of the package and demonstrate some of its advanced functionality.
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spellingShingle SimEngine: A Modular Framework for Statistical Simulations in R
Kenny, Avi
Wolock, Charles J.
Computation
This article describes SimEngine, an open-source R package for structuring, maintaining, running, and debugging statistical simulations on both local and cluster-based computing environments. Several R packages exist for structuring simulations, but SimEngine is the only package specifically designed for running simulations in parallel via job schedulers on high-performance cluster computing systems. The package provides structure and functionality for common simulation tasks, such as setting simulation levels, managing seeds for random number generation, and calculating summary metrics (such as bias and confidence interval coverage). SimEngine also brings several unique features, such as automatic calculation of Monte Carlo error and information-sharing across simulation replicates. We provide an overview of the package and demonstrate some of its advanced functionality.
title SimEngine: A Modular Framework for Statistical Simulations in R
topic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05698