Plotting statistical power vs replicates and calculating mean of coefficients - r

Question

I need to plot the statistical power vs. the number of replicates and in this case the number of replicates (n) is 3, but I can't figure out how to plot it.
This is what I have:
library(car)
n <- 3
nsims <- 1000
p = coef = vector()
for (i in 1:nsims) {
treat <- rnorm(n, mean = 460, sd = 110)
cont <- rnorm(n, mean = 415, sd = 110)
df <- data.frame(
y = c(treat, cont),
x = rep(c("treat", "cont"), each = n)
)
model <- glm(y ~ x, data = df)
p[i] = Anova(model)$P
coef[i] = coef(model)[2]
}
hist(p, col = 'skyblue')
sum(p < 0.05)/nsims
Can someone help me plot this?
Also, I need to calculate the mean of the coefficients using only models where p < 0.05. This is simulating the following process: if you perform the experiment, and p > 0.05, you report 'no effect’, but if p < 0.05 you report ‘significant effect’. But I'm not sure how to set that up from what I have.
Would I just do this?
mean(coef)
But I don't know how to include only those with p < 0.05.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I spend a decent amount of time simulating experiments for work so I have strong opinions on this.
If that's everything because it's for a study assignment then fine, if you are planning to go further with this I recommend
adding the tidyverse to your arsenal.
Encapsulating functionality
First allows me to put a single iteration into a function to decouple its logic from the result subsetting (the encapsulation).
sim <- function(n) {
treat <- rnorm(n, 460, 110)
cont <- rnorm(n, 415, 110)
data <- data.frame(y = c(treat, cont), x = rep(c("treat", "cont"), each = n))
model <- glm(y ~ x, data = data)
p <- car::Anova(model)$P
coef <- coef(model)[2]
data.frame(n, p, coef)
}
Now we can simulate
nsims <- 1000
sims <- do.call(
rbind,
# We are now using the parameter as opposed to the previous post.
lapply(
rep(c(3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100), each = nsims),
sim
)
)
# Aggregations
power_smry <- aggregate(p ~ n, sims, function(x) {mean(x < 0.05)})
coef_smry <- aggregate(coef ~ n, sims[sims$p < 0.05, ], mean)
# Plots
plot(p ~ n, data = power_smry
If you do this in the tidyverse this is one possible approach
crossing(
n = rep(c(3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100))
# Add any number of other inputs here that you want to explore (like lift).
) %>%
rowwise() %>%
# This looks complicated but will be less so if you have multiple
# varying hyperparameters defined in crossing.
mutate(results = list(bind_rows(rerun(nsims, sim(n))))) %>%
pull(results) %>%
bind_rows() %>%
group_by(n) %>%
# The more metrics you want to summarize in different ways the easier compared to base.
summarize(
power = mean(p < 0.05),
coef = mean(coef[p < 0.05])
)