simValues: simValues

In raldulai/Episim: functions for creating a simulated epidemiological data based on excel sheet with descriptive statistics of the real data.

Description

Simulates continuous distribution given quantiles

Usage

simValues(probabilities, quantiles, n)

Arguments

probabilities	numeric vector giving probabilities at which quantiles are estimated in the original dataset, e.g. for quartiles would be seq(0, 1, by=0.25).
quantiles
n	number of observations to simulate from a continuous distribution

Author(s)

Levi Waldron and Ragheed Al Dulaimi

Examples

##Simulate an original variable from a random exponential distribution
origvar <- rexp(1000)
## Use percentiles to simulate the distribution
probs <- seq(0, 1, by=0.01)
simvar <- simValues(probabilities=probs, quantiles=quantile(origvar, probs=probs), 1000)
##Use a QQ plot to show these distributions are comparable:
qqplot(origvar, simvar);
abline(a=0, b=1)

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