md.sample: md.sample

In missDeaths: Simulating and Analyzing Time to Event Data in the Presence of Population Mortality

Description

Creates information of a covariate that represents a random sample (with replacement) of the provided values. This function call must be added to the md.simparams object.

Usage

md.sample(name, array, weights=NULL)

Arguments

name	name of the covariate
array	vector of elements from which to choose from
weights	vector of probability weights for obtaining the elements of the vector being sampled or NULL if all values have equal probabilities

Examples

## Not run: 
library(missDeaths)

sim = md.simparams() +
   md.sample("X", c(0, 1, 2), c(0.2, 0.3, 0.5)) 

## End(Not run)

missDeaths documentation built on Oct. 23, 2020, 6:39 p.m.