tpcExample: Simulated data example

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Simulated data example

Description

A small simulated data example intended to showcase the TPC algorithm. Note that the variable name prefixes defines with period they are related to ("child", "youth" or "oldage").

Usage

tpcExample

Format

A data.frame with 200 rows and 6 variables.

child_x1

Structural equation: X1 := \epsilon1 with \epsilon1 ~ Unif{0,1}

child_x2

Structural equation: X2 := 2 * X1 + \epsilon2 with \epsilon2 ~ N(0,1)

youth_x3

Structural equation: X3 := \epsilon3 with \epsilon3 ~ Unif{0, 1}

youth_x4

Structural equation: X4 := X2 + \epsilon4 with \epsilon4 ~ N(0,1)

oldage_x5

Structural equation: X5 := X3^2 + X3 - 3 * X2 + \epsilon5 with \epsilon5 ~ N(0,1)

oldage_x6

Structural equation: X6 := X4^3 + X4^2 + 2 * X5 + \epsilon6 with \epsilon6 ~ N(0,1)

References

Petersen, AH; Osler, M and Ekstrøm, CT (2021): Data-Driven Model Building for Life-Course Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology.

Examples

 data(tpcExample)
 

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