add_one_categorical: Generate linear predictor from logistic model

In SimTimeVar: Simulate Longitudinal Dataset with Time-Varying Correlated Covariates

Description

An internal function not intended for the user. Given a dataset and multinomial regression parameters, generates a categorical variable and adds it to the dataset.

Usage

add_one_categorical(.d, n, obs, cat.parameters)

Arguments

.d	The dataset to which to add the categorical variable.
n	The number of clusters.
obs	The number of observations per cluster.
cat.parameters	A dataframe of parameters for generating the categorical variable. See Details.

Examples

# mini dataset with 3 observations per person
data = data.frame( male = rep( rbinom(n=10, size=1, prob=0.5), each=3 ) )
add_one_categorical( data, 10, 3, cat.params)

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