total_effect function

Retrieve Total Effect estimates

Retrieves the population average total causal effect for specified allocations: $Yhat(0, alpha1) - Yhat(1, alpha2)$

total_effect(object, allocation1, allocation2 = NULL, trt.lvl1 = 0)

te(object, allocation1, allocation2 = NULL, trt.lvl1 = 0)

Arguments

• object: an object of class interference
• allocation1: the allocation scheme for which to estimate total effects
• allocation2: the allocation scheme for which to estimate total effects If NULL, then returns all indirect effects compared to allocation1.
• trt.lvl1: Defaults to 0.

Returns

a data.frame with requested values