contact_age_distribution: Extract the empirical age distribution of contacts from a...
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contact_age_distribution

R Documentation

Extract the empirical age distribution of contacts from a survey

Description

Returns a data.frame of (age, proportion) pairs representing how contact ages are distributed in the survey. This can be passed to assign_age_groups() as estimated_contact_age to impute ages from ranges using this distribution rather than uniform sampling.

Usage

contact_age_distribution(survey)

Arguments

survey

a survey() object

Value

a data.frame with columns age (integer) and proportion (numeric, summing to 1)

Examples

data(polymod)
dist <- contact_age_distribution(polymod)
head(dist)
plot(dist$age, dist$proportion, type = "h",
     xlab = "Age", ylab = "Proportion")

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