newBOWL function

Create a BOWL Object for First Step of BOWL Algorithm

## S4 method for signature '`NULL`'
.newBOWL(
  BOWLObj,
  moPropen,
  fSet,
  data,
  response,
  txName,
  lambdas,
  cvFolds,
  kernel,
  surrogate,
  suppress,
  guess,
  ...
)

## S4 method for signature 'BOWL'
.newBOWL(
  BOWLObj,
  moPropen,
  fSet,
  data,
  response,
  txName,
  lambdas,
  cvFolds,
  kernel,
  surrogate,
  suppress,
  guess,
  ...
)

Arguments

• BOWLObj: NULL or an object returned from a previous step
• moPropen: modelObj or modelObjSubset for propensity modeling
• fSet: optional function defining subsets for modeling
• data: data.frame of covariates
• response: response
• txName: treatment variable column header in data
• lambdas: tuning parameter(s)
• cvFolds: number of cross-validation folds
• kernel: Kernel object
• surrogate: Surrogate object
• suppress: T/F indicating if prints to screen are to be executed
• guess: Starting values for optimization