completed_LOCF: Applies an extended LOCF transform to impute missing data

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Description

Given a vector, applies LOCF transform to this vector to impute missing data and also impute first or last potential missing observations with resp. the first obs. available or the last obs. available depending on the fromLast argument chosen in na.locf.

Usage

completed_LOCF(x,fromLast=F)

Arguments

x	a vector with missing data you need to impute
fromLast	Boolean indicating whether we want to apply locf from the first observation (FALSE) or from the last observation (TRUE)

Value

A vector with the same length whose missing data have been imputed with the extended locf method.

Author(s)

Benjamin Schannes

Examples

## Not run: 
xx <- c(NA,NA,2,3,NA,NA,2,3,NA)
xx <- completed_LOCF(xx,fromLast=F)

## End(Not run)

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