impute_participant_ages: Impute participant ages

In socialmixr: Social Mixing Matrices for Infectious Disease Modelling

Impute participant ages

Description

Imputes participant survey data, where variables are named: "part_age_est_min" and "part_age_est_max". Uses mean imputation, sampling (hot deck), or leaves them as missing. These are controlled by the estimate argument.

Usage

impute_participant_ages(
  participants,
  estimate = c("mean", "sample", "missing")
)

Arguments

participants	A survey data set of participants
estimate	if set to "mean" (default), people whose ages are given as a range (in columns named "..._est_min" and "..._est_max") but not exactly (in a column named "..._exact") will have their age set to the mid-point of the range; if set to "sample", the age will be sampled from the range; if set to "missing", age ranges will be treated as missing

Value

The participant data, potentially with participant ages imputed depending on the estimate method and whether age columns are present in the data.

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