Allow specification of functional forms for g and Q fits
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nhejazi commented
The tmle
package allows for the functional form of the nuisance parameters g and Q to be specified via the optional arguments gform
and Qform
, respectively. These arguments simply take in a character that is then translated to a formula for the glm
function (via as.formula
) --- e.g., gform = "A ~ W1 + W2"
. Since the machinery used for point estimation in this package relies on the tmle
package (though the variance estimator is different here), an option should be added to allow gform
and Qform
(and, indeed, other arbitrary arguments) to be passed to the call to tmle
in biomarkertmle_exposure
. This would be most simply done via the addition of a ...
argument.