TY - JOUR AU - Alfons, Andreas AU - Templ, Matthias AU - Filzmoser, Peter PY - 2010/11/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Object-Oriented Framework for Statistical Simulation: The R Package simFrame JF - Journal of Statistical Software JA - J. Stat. Soft. VL - 37 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.18637/jss.v037.i03 UR - https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v037i03 SP - 1 - 36 AB - Simulation studies are widely used by statisticians to gain insight into the quality of developed methods. Usually some guidelines regarding, e.g., simulation designs, contamination, missing data models or evaluation criteria are necessary in order to draw meaningful conclusions. The R package <b>simFrame</b> is an object-oriented framework for statistical simulation, which allows researchers to make use of a wide range of simulation designs with a minimal effort of programming. Its object-oriented implementation provides clear interfaces for extensions by the user. Since statistical simulation is an embarrassingly parallel process, the framework supports parallel computing to increase computational performance. Furthermore, an appropriate plot method is selected automatically depending on the structure of the simulation results. In this paper, the implementation of <b>simFrame</b> is discussed in great detail and the functionality of the framework is demonstrated in examples for different simulation designs. ER -